It's military parlance for "sleeping time". When soldiers are out fighting in a war, they often sleep in sleeping bags. "Sack" is another name for a "bag"- in fact, when I was in the US Army, we often called sleeping bags "fart sacks".
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back, flack, Hack, Jack, knack, Mack, pack, quack, rack, sack, tack, whack, and yak, among others.
He fell off a wagon trying to catch a sack of grain that was slipping during a journey and a wagon wheel rolled over him, breaking his neck.
In Bless You, Hawkeye (9th season, 1980-81), a patient smelling like a wet, burlap sack triggers a long-buried childhood memory for Hawkeye. The memory sets off sneezing fits with no medical explanation. Sidney helps Hawkeye through the ordeal with his usual gentle, perceptive, and clarifying manner. Through an emotional walk down memory lane, Sidney and Hawkeye learn that a cousin revered by Hawkeye pushed Hawkeye into a lake when they were row boating. Hawkeye repressed and reversed the memory. He convinced himself that he fell in the lake where he emerged smelling like a 'wet, burlap sack.' The odor ignited the memory but Hawkeye's psyche dealt with the emotional pain through physical agony.
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 of chili weighs about 35#
A burlap bag. A potato sack A gunny sack
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.
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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.