Advertisement

Advertisement

barley sack

noun

, Southwestern U.S. (chiefly California).
  1. a burlap bag.


Discover More

Example Sentences

Fear not, though the barley sack be empty,   Here's half of Hassan's scanty bread.

Into a barley sack went his saddlery, with a reserve of many straps, buckles and horse-brushes, all collected at odd moments.

But in three days the barley sack and its queer-looking additions had been changed for a true saddle—with the cinches drawn up tight enough for riding.

On that evening, also, Bull made his next step forward toward the most difficult proposition of all—he took a partly filled barley sack and put it on the back of Diablo.

So Bull returned to the idea of the barley sack, with gradual additions.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


barleycornbarley sandwich