Word.ws English Dictionary

chaffbag

chaffbag noun: a large sack for holding chaff.

Noun

chaffbag (plural chaffbags)

  1. A large sack for holding chaff.
    • Reluctantly Cora handed up the basket and was hauled up over the splash-board herself, and bumped down on the chaffbags as Ted Farrell clicked up the horse again.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 168

Forms of chaffbag

pluralchaffbags

Origin of chaffbag

From chaff + bag.

Questions about chaffbag

What does chaffbag mean?
Chaffbag means a large sack for holding chaff.
What part of speech is chaffbag?
Chaffbag is a noun.
What is the plural of chaffbag?
The plural of chaffbag is chaffbags.

Words near chaffbag in the dictionary

  1. chaff
  2. chaff cutter
  3. chaff cutters
  4. chaff engine
  5. chaff engines
  6. chaffbag
  7. chaffbags
  8. chaffed
  9. Chaffee
  10. Chaffee County
  11. Chaffees

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chaffbag (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “chaffbag.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chaffbag. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.