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Gunnysack   /gˈənisˌæk/   Listen
Gunnysack

noun
1.
A bag made of burlap.  Synonyms: burlap bag, gunny sack.





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"Gunnysack" Quotes from Famous Books



... interest, for the Scarecrow's body was only a suit of clothes filled with straw. The coat was buttoned tight to keep the packed straw from falling out and a rope was tied around the waist to hold it in shape and prevent the straw from sagging down. The Scarecrow's head was a gunnysack filled with bran, on which the eyes, nose and mouth had been painted. His hands were white cotton gloves stuffed with fine straw. Woot noticed that even when carefully stuffed and patted into shape, the straw man was awkward in his movements and decidedly wobbly on his feet, so the ...
— The Tin Woodman of Oz • L. Frank Baum
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... was going home. In the gunnysack bag on his back, humped up on top of the rag humps in the bag, was an old vest. It was the same old vest Jason Squiff threw out of a door at Rags Habakuk. In the pocket of the vest was the gold buckskin whincher with a ...
— Rootabaga Stories • Carl Sandburg
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