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

It was a part of a grocer's sugar bag, written upon in the coarse black crayon used by the tallymen on the quays at Kingsbridge.

From Jim Davis by Masefield, John

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

On one of the buttons of his Beaufort hung a strip of ordinary sugar bag, on which he had written with a stub of pencil the word "Program."

From The Missing Link by Dyson, Edward