sugar bag

noun

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

Example Sentences

He wears a very new-fashioned cap like a stiff sugar-bag, with the top lopping over.

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The p. 300nest, or “sugar-bag,” as the bushmen call it, is generally made in a hollow tree.

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Each man feels for the mouth of his sugar-bag with one hand while he keeps the bearings of his pot with the other.

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

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That's the tea-bag, and that's the sugar-bag, and that's the flour-bag.

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