"floursack" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: floursacks [plural]
Etymology: From flour + sack. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|flour|sack}} flour + sack Head templates: {{en-noun}} floursack (plural floursacks)
  1. A sack for flour. Synonyms: mealbag, meal-poke Hypernyms: sack, bag, poke, packaging Coordinate_terms: feedsack
    Sense id: en-floursack-en-noun-uZ1-aX6i Categories (other): Bags Disambiguation of Bags: 62 38
  2. Sackcloth. (In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, floursack cloth was often reused for making clothing, quilts, or rags, and this tradition continues to some extent today.) Synonyms: hessian, burlap Hypernyms: cloth, fabric, textile, material Coordinate_terms: feedsack
    Sense id: en-floursack-en-noun-0N8KUqjQ Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 57 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 44 56 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 39 61

Inflected forms

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