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/bˈərlˌæp bæg/ Listen

Burlap bag

noun

A bag made of burlap. Synonyms: gunny sack, gunnysack.

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... behind a built-in laboratory table, where it could not be recovered without tearing out the table. For four days and nights it had the run of the laboratory. On the first night of its freedom it found and entered a burlap bag of grass seed that had been taken from a mound. A trail of seed and chaff next morning showed that it had been busily engaged in making its new quarters comfortable with bedding and food. After four nights of freedom it was captured alive in a trap, and later it was found that it had moved from ...

— Life History of the Kangaroo Rat • Charles T. Vorhies and Walter P. Taylor

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... as Tom learned the custom, he adapted himself to the lazy, go-as-you-please kind of life. He scared up a rusty tin plate, made himself a straw bed in a boarded-in box stall, got hold of an old burlap bag which he wore as a kind of tunic while washing his clothes, and idled about listening to the war experiences of others. He had thought his own experiences rather remarkable, but now they seemed so tame that he did not venture to tell them. Fights with German ...

— Tom Slade on a Transport • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

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