˜yÐÄvlog

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towsack

[ toh-sak ]

noun

  1. South Midland and Southern U.S. gunnysack.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of towsack1

1925–30, Americanism; apparently tow 1 + sack 1
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Example Sentences

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No, you were not listening; you didn’t have to: then the dogs stirred, rose; you looked up and sure enough, just as your father had said he would, Luster had halted the mule and the two horses in the rain about fifty yards from the cedars, sitting there with his knees drawn up under the towsack and enclosed by the cloudy vapor of the steaming animals as though he were looking at you and your father out of some lugubrious and painless purgatory.

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