Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A bag in which a pudding is boiled: usually not sewed in any way, but a cloth gathered around the uncooked pudding and tied with a string.
  • noun The long-tailed titmouse: same as featherpoke

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Examples

  • The pudding-bag shape stretched, lengthened, merged.

    A Wrinkle in Time L'Engle, Madeleine 1962

  • The pudding-bag shape stretched, lengthened, merged.

    A Wrinkle in Time L'Engle, Madelein 1962

  • As Elizabeth carried her books home under her arm, bulging out one side of her circular like an unevenly inflated pudding-bag, the throbbing continued, and she turned into the less frequented streets with the certainty that she was going to disgrace herself with tears shed publicly.

    The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger

  • After this the pieces go to the sewing-room, where they are sewed together by a woman, on a sewing-machine, in what is called a "pudding-bag" seam.

    Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Anonymous

  • A short time afterwards his mother was making a batter-pudding, and Tom being very anxious to see how it was made, climbed up to the edge of the bowl; but unfortunately his foot slipped and he plumped over head and ears into the batter, unseen by his mother, who stirred him into the pudding-bag, and put him in the pot to boil.

    The History of Tom Thumb to which are added the stories of the Cat and the Mouse and Fire! Fire! Burn stick! Henry [Editor] Altemus

  • Framed in the aperture, and falling forward a little before it jammed again in its frame, was something that resembled a large lumpy pudding, done up in a pudding-bag of faded browny red frieze.

    Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917

  • Though indeed it looks more like a pudding-bag -- a very small one, of course.

    The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • In spite of his pudding-bag shape he handles the sword as well as any man in England.

    Richard Carvel — Volume 05 Winston Churchill 1909

  • In spite of his pudding-bag shape he handles the sword as well as any man in England.

    Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • In spite of his pudding-bag shape he handles the sword as well as any man in England.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

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