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haybag en · NOUN

Etymology

From hay + bag.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of hay bag (“bag filled with hay”).
   alt of hay bag
   • If your horses are being kept in slip stalls you will find it convenient to feed their hay in haybags. 1998, Robert A. Mischka, It's Showtime!: A Beginner's Guide to Showing Draft Horses, Mischka Press/Heart Prairie, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62:
2. (alt-of, alternative, derogatory, slang) Alternative form of hay bag (“a woman”).
   alt of hay bag
   • 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. 2015, E. C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott, Helena Huntington Smith, We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher (page 78)

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