sugar bag

British  

noun

1. a small hessian bag occasionally still used, esp in rural areas, as a rough-and-ready measure for dry goods

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sugar bag

Under a flagstone walk the searchers found a metal box containing some $9,000 of the Fall River robbery cash, plus a sugar bag crammed with nickels.

From Time Magazine Archive

This they had acquired by the custom on coming into camp, of going out with the boys opossum and "sugar bag" hunting.

From Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland by Byerley, Frederick, J.

She was back at the sugar bag at once, digging out spoonfuls for Morrison's coffee.

From The Littlest Rebel by Peple, Edward Henry

"See, the sugar bag is bursted open!" cried the doctor's son.

From Out with Gun and Camera by Bonehill, Ralph

Apparently the stone had been placed inside the sugar bag for concealment and I wonder it never occurred to the mother that the baby might suck a hole in the bag and swallow the stone.

From Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Stockley, Cynthia