sugar bag

noun

1. a small hessian bag occasionally still used, esp in rural areas, as a rough-and-ready measure for dry goods

Example Sentences

An opening gallery has hundreds of images of American Indians - often a stoic chief in a Plains-style headdress or a maiden - on alcohol bottles, a sugar bag, motor oil, a missile mounted on the wall and a 1948 Indian Chief motorcycle.

From Washington Times

Above, whipped emu egg with sugar bag.

From New York Times

In his autobiography, he says that he helped pick cotton from the age of four, using a “small, ten-pound little cloth sugar bag,” and graduating, at six, to “a full, 100-pound bag like the grown-ups used.”

From The New Yorker

The report called highly enriched uranium “one of the most dangerous materials on the planet,” warning that an amount small enough to fit in a five-pound sugar bag could be used to build a nuclear device “with the potential to kill hundreds of thousands of people.”

From New York Times

Authorities have said an employee at Dickey's Barbecue in South Jordan unintentionally put the heavy-duty cleaner lye in a sugar bag, and another worker on Aug. 10 mistakenly mixed it into an iced-tea dispenser.

From Seattle Times