haybag

noun

Etymology

From hay + bag.

  1. derived from baggi
  2. inherited from bagge
  3. compounded as haybag — “hay + bag

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of hay bag (“bag filled with hay”).

    • If your horses are being kept in slip stalls you will find it convenient to feed their hay in haybags.
  2. Alternative form of hay bag (“a woman”).

    • The only women in the town were the storekeeper's wife, and a fat old haybag who had been scalped by Indians at the mouth of the Musselshell a few years before, and was laying up with the barber.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA