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Definition of Gunnysack
1. Noun. A bag made of burlap.
Definition of Gunnysack
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of gunny sack) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gunnysack
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gunnysack
Literary usage of Gunnysack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Societies of the Plains Indians by Clark Wissler (1916)
"The man who takes the initiative in the arrangement of the performance bids his
friends meet in the brush, bringing with them gunnysack, mud, and leaves. ..."
2. Fifty Years a Detective by Thomas Furlong (1912)
"I noiselessly approached him from behind, and, seizing the gunnysack containing
the carboy, jerked it away from him, while Ervin held on to his collar so ..."
3. Five Years a Dragoon ('49 to '54) and Other Adventures on the Great Plains by Percival Green Lowe (1906)
"He used a gunnysack—the coarse kind, made of loose soft fiber—the old - fashioned
corn ... After that the gunnysack was worn by every horse in the troop. ..."
4. American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany by Conrad Aiken (1922)
"He had on a gunnysack shirt over his bones, And he lifted an elbow socket over his
... He said it and quit and faded away, A gunnysack shirt on his bones. ..."
5. Larue's Maneuvers by James Isaiah Gabbe (2007)
"Certain I'd been abandoned in a citadel for VCs bent on blowing away lost, hapless
members of the Free World Forces, I menacingly swung my canvas gunnysack, ..."
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