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

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

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

From Out with Gun and Camera by Bonehill, Ralph

But would he not wrathfully seek the police if, after opening his sugar bag, for which he had paid $1, he found it contained only 50 cents' worth of sugar?

From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Lawson, Thomas William