A gunny sack of chili weighs about 35#
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a gunny sack is a sack made of gunny or burlap
a gunny sack is a sack made of gunny or burlap
A gunny sack originates from the latin word gunie meaning held for transportation.
Gunny sack are inexpensive bag made up of burlap. Burlap is a woven fabric usually made from the skin of the jute plant. Gunny sacks are used for transporting agricultural products.
A burlap bag. A potato sack A gunny sack
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I'm pretty sure a crokasack is what people in the South used to call a gunny sack. I used to hear that word, crokasack, used for gunny sack when I was a child in the early 1950s.
"He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack, and sit beneath a tree beside the railroad track."
Some words that rhyme with "funny" include money, bunny, sunny, and honey.
While life aboard a ship can have moments of terrifying excitement, the truth is that most sailors and merchant marines eventually leave the sea for the same reason - boredom. Merchant seamen on leave commonly go to used book shops with a gunny sack, and buy enough used books to fill the gunny sack - just to have something to do when their work is complete and they are off-watch.
Bring your own grocery sack to the supermarket if you want to be green.