Definition of "gunny-sack" [gunny-sack]

• Same as gunny-bag (which see, under gunny). (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "But the price is right $10 a day, so I mount the gunny-sack and sheep-fleece saddle, and with a crude map in hand start loping northwards up the jagged coast."
• "Sleeves rolled up from soap-flecked arms and a wet gunny-sack around her waist told of the task at which she had been caught."
• "Tante Emma and Tante Anna, always spoken in that order, never Tante Anna and Tante Emma, were always draped in black to ankle top, but not in the gunny-sack raiment of the typical Tante or Bestemor."