towsack
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]towsack (plural towsacks)
- (Appalachia) A kind of burlap sack; a gunny sack.
- 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
- You do not think it until he comes through the door, carrying the empty toe-sack in one hand and the revolver in the other.
- 1997, Paxton Davis, Being a Boy, page 262:
- Baseball was "as natural as breathing," played with towsacks or bushes for bases, splintered bats held together with electric tape, and teams with from two to two dozen players.