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moss bag 
n. among certain Indian tribes, a kind of bag that is laced in front and sometimes attached to a cradle-board, used for carrying a baby and so called because the bag is lined with dry moss, which serves as a diaper. [See picture at cradle- board.]
See also: cradle-board moss basket papoose bag tikinagan
- 1743 (1949) [For clouts they use white mawse, twice a Day trying Drying itt well before the fire, or putt a Burning Coal, into the mawse which Dry's itt as well,--which is an Excellent thing Keeping the Child Constantly Dry, the soft mawse sucking all the Damp up,--Not being at the trouble and Charge other Nations are at, in Washing, Drying and Bying Cloth for clouts.]
- 1867 Cradles are never used; but this machine, called a "moss bag," is an excellent adjunct to the rearing of children up to a certain age, and has become almost, if not universally adopted in the families of the Hudson's Bay Company's employés.
- 1963 It is an event for the whole family, from the 15-day-old baby sleeping in a moss bag to the old lady of a hundred years. . . .
- 1743 (1949) [For clouts they use white mawse, twice a Day trying Drying itt well before the fire, or putt a Burning Coal, into the mawse which Dry's itt as well,--which is an Excellent thing Keeping the Child Constantly Dry, the soft mawse sucking all the Damp up,--Not being at the trouble and Charge other Nations are at, in Washing, Drying and Bying Cloth for clouts.]