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bag

• 1 n. a strong bag made of buffalo rawhide sewn hair side out, used as a container for 90 pounds of pemmican (def. 1).

  See also: pemmican (def. 1)  taureau (def. 1)  

  • 1800  (1922)  This compound is put into bags, made of the skins of buffaloes. . . .

• 2 n. the bag and its contents.

  See also: taureau (def. 2)  

  • 1957  Just the same he would take . . . two ninety-pound bags of pemmican, for a man ate like hell in deep-zero weather

• 3 n. Lumbering a type of boom (def. 3b) used in towing logs, especially pulp sticks, loosely packed and enclosed by linked boom logs. Such a boom assumes a baglike shape under tow. See picture at boom.

  See also: bag boom  boom ((1)) ((v.))  

  • c1963  The river carries the floating logs into a "bag" formed by a necklace of huge logs from Western Canada. When the 10,000 to 12,000 cords of pulpwood have filled the bag the back end is closed and the floating cargo is towed to the mill at the speed of one mile an hour.
  • 1965  A fourth raft, called "the Bag," consisted merely of a mass of logs collected without cross-logs as in the old type flat raft. It was used only in sheltered areas.