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

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

“Then,” continued Lisle, indicating the sugar bag, which had been wrapped in a waterproof sheet, “can you imagine a starving man, in desperate haste, making up this package as it was when we found it?”

From The Long Portage by Bindloss, Harold

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

From Out with Gun and Camera by Bonehill, Ralph

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