Synonyms for floursack
Definitions
- n. 1
A sack for flour.
She brought us her quilting scraps in an old floursack, ready to be used in our crafting project.
- n. 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.)
Near-synonyms: hessian, burlap
Forms
- Plural
- floursacks → meal-pokes, mealbags, burlaps, hessians…
Example sentences
- burlap Tom was carrying something in a burlap sack.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| floursack | steady | |
| burlap | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- burlap2
- 7 letters
- hessian2, mealbag
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (burlap2 = 2 syllables).