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English
Noun
gunny-bag (plural gunny-bags)
- Gunny sack.
1885, Rudyard Kipling, “The City of Dreadful Night”, in The Works of Rudyard Kipling, Delphi Classics, published 2013:They lie—some face downwards, arms folded, in the dust; some with clasped hands flung up above their heads; some curled up dog-wise; some thrown like limp gunny-bags over the side of grain carts; and some bowed with their brows on their knees in the full glare of the Moon.
- 1920, F. B. Bradley-Birt, Bengal Fairy Tales, London: John Lane, Part I, Chapter IV, p. 19,
- Returning home, he collected the charcoal, and, putting it into two large gunny-bags, which he placed on the back of one of his cows, one bag on each side, he started for the market for the ostensible purpose of selling their contents.
1922, Rabindranath Tagore, Creative Unity, London: Macmillan & Co., page 115:Some years ago, when I set out from Calcutta on my voyage to Japan, the first thing that shocked me, with a sense of personal injury, was the ruthless intrusion of the factories for making gunny-bags on both banks of the Ganges.
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 188:[…] when Peter had reasoned out the fact that it was better to live in a native camp where there was little food than on one's own plantation where there was none, that careless fellow and his lubra and his wife filled a gunny-bag with their possessions and followed in the track of their relatives.
1942, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 12, in The Robe, Boston: Houghton Mifflin:There was one article of Galilean homespun, at the bottom of his gunny-bag, that Justus must not see!