gunny
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Once the dogs were baying along the rabbit's scent, the gamekeeper ran across the trail ahead of them, dragging a gunny sack of red herrings.
From Salon ● May 13, 2023
“He told them to put it in a walking boot, and he tied it on the saddle with a gunny sack,” she said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
Her makeshift hut, like hundreds of others here, is made from sticks and covered with gunny bags and clothes.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2022
“We used gunny sacks to cover the windows because there was no glass.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2018
She popped up and said, “Did you say the monkeys got away with your traps and gunny sack, Jay Berry? How did they do that?”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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The gunnies of the ships o'ertopped by many feet the quay-wall and their chains rose slanting, tight from the rings.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro
Patna chests are covered with bullock hides, Benares with gunnies.
His sons were gunners and souldiers, and scoured their gunnies with them; but he shewed me severall old deeds granted by the Lords Abbots, with their scales annexed, which I suppose his sonn Capt.
From The Natural History of Wiltshire by John Aubrey
We found the track of the natives and fell in with several of their gunnies or habitations.
From The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant by Ida Lee
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