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chaffbag en · NOUN

Etymology

From chaff + bag.

Meanings

  1. A large sack for holding chaff.
    • Reluctantly Cora handed up the basket and was hauled up over the splash-board herself, and bumped down on the chaffbags as Ted Farrell clicked up the horse again. 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 168:

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chaffbags Number=Plur lexicographic