Gunnysack (Noun)
Meaning
A bag made of burlap.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- She loaded her harvest of apples into a sturdy gunnysack for the journey to the farmer's market.
- A bundle of potting soil sat waiting by the door in a gunnysack that needed to be unpacked and repotted.
- My grandmother still has her husband's old military uniforms, wrapped carefully in a canvas and twine-bound gunnysack, safely stashed in a dusty storage loft.
- Many communities run fundraising collections, passing a gunnysack around at church or during town gatherings to gather donations for causes local and global.
- His pants were stained with last week's greengrass, having spent most of Tuesday hauling the bulk in a gunnysack across field after sodden field.