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sootbag en · NOUN

Etymology

From soot + bag.

Meanings

1. A bag of soot.
   • One portion of the public had flown to arms because Mr. Crawshay had jocularly talked of sending a sweep and a sootbag in the third-class train to keep respectable people out. 1851, A History of the English Railway, John Francis, page 103:

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