gunny-bag
gunny-bag noun: gunny sack.
Noun
gunny-bag (plural gunny-bags)
- Gunny sack.
- They lie—some face downwards, arms folded, in the dust; some with clasped hands flung up above their heads; some curled up dog-wise; some thrown like limp gunny-bags over the side of grain carts; and some bowed with their brows on their knees in the full glare of the Moon.1885, Rudyard Kipling, “The City of Dreadful Night”, in The Works of Rudyard Kipling, Delphi Classics, published 2013
- Returning home, he collected the charcoal, and, putting it into two large gunny-bags, which he placed on the back of one of his cows, one bag on each side, he started for the market for the ostensible purpose of selling their contents.1920, F. B. Bradley-Birt, Bengal Fairy Tales, London: John Lane, Part I, Chapter IV, p. 19, https://archive.org/details/bengalfairytale00bradgoog
gunny-bag meaning in Tamil and Odia
gunny-bag in Tamil
- கோணிப்பை
gunny-bag in Odia
- gunny-bag; bale; bag
- ବସ୍ତା bastā
Forms of gunny-bag
| plural | gunny-bags |
|---|---|
| alternative form | gunnybag |
Questions about gunny-bag
- What does gunny-bag mean?
- Gunny-bag means gunny sack.
- What is gunny-bag in Tamil?
- Gunny-bag in Tamil is கோணிப்பை. See Gunny-bag meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is gunny-bag?
- Gunny-bag is a noun.
- What is the plural of gunny-bag?
- The plural of gunny-bag is gunny-bags.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: gunny-bag (page history and authors); gunny-bag (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ବସ୍ତା (Odia) (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.
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