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

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

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

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