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  • noun Alternative spelling of feedbag.

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Examples

  • Steve recrossed to the door and began to unfasten the feed-bag from

    Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans

  • Trennery's Grocery Store, with his nose deep in a feed-bag.

    Half-Past Seven Stories Robert Gordon Anderson

  • "The mater seems to have drastic ideas about the good old feed-bag, what!"

    Indiscretions of Archie 1928

  • He used to bring me candy from town, hidden in his feed-bag.

    My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • He used to bring me candy from town, hidden in his feed-bag.

    My Ántonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • And her mother declared such sewing was hardly good enough for a feed-bag.

    A Little Girl of Long Ago Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

  • He threw his first punches against a feed-bag stuffed with rags, hung from an oak tree.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • By Monday, Carol was content to have the morning off to settle into one of my feed-bag chairs in my studio and savor her Cuban coffee.

    Pamela Jane's Studio 2008

  • #4, raz, before I scrolled down to the math, I thought feed-bag.

    Regretsy – Regretsy Math 2010

  • I pause here to note that, in the view of Superintendent Jorden Schiff, having enough leisure time for you and your friends to enjoy a meal together, rather than being herded through a line to get a feed-bag slapped on your snout before you’re herded back into class, doesn’t count as part of the greater good.

    Work to rule in middle school 2008

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