bread-bag

A form of breadbag — A canvas sack for the storage of hardtack.

Meanings

nounbread-bag (plural bread-bags)

plural bread-bags

  1. alternativeAlternative form of breadbag.
    1 more example

    All the time I was washing out the block house, and then washing up the things from dinner, this disgust and envy kept growing stronger and stronger, till at last, being near a bread-bag, and no one then observing me, I took the first step towards my escapade and filled both pockets of my coat with biscuit.

    1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
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