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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Example Sentences

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

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

From Out with Gun and Camera by Bonehill, Ralph

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

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

It had been sucking one of those sugar bag arrangements that mothers sometimes make for their children.

From Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Stockley, Cynthia