gunny sack

1. 1.

   a bag made of burlap

   Synonymsgunnysackburlap bag

   Broaderbag

Questions about gunny sack

What does gunny sack mean?

gunny sack means "a bag made of burlap".

What is another word for gunny sack?

Close synonyms include gunnysack, burlap bag. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gunny sack a common word?

gunny sack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.