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
Yakama Nation tribal member Rod Begay passed me a fish about 18 inches long as he transferred part of the day’s catch into a gunny sack for transport back to the boat.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 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
Putting my traps in the gunny sack, I said, “You will, Grandpa, and one of them will be that hundred dollar monkey. He’s the jasper I want to catch.”
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.
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
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