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▪ I. gunny|ˈgʌnɪ|
Also 8 goney.
[a. Hindi and Mahratti gōn, gōnī:—Skr. gōṇī sack.]
a. A coarse material used chiefly for sacking and made from the fibres of jute or (in some parts) from sunn-hemp; a sack of this material.
1711C. Lockyer Acc. Trade Ind. 244 When Sugar is pack'd in double Goneys, the outer Bag is always valued in Contract at 1 or 1½ Shahee. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. xxxiii. 17 Gunnies, which are much in use in Persia for embaling Goods. 1869Rogers in Adam Smith's W.N. I. i. x. 122 note, Almost every person in Hindostan Spins and Weaves Jute fibre into a coarse cloth called gunny. 1871G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. iii. iv. 725 Pack them in large gunnies. 1897Willis Flower. Pl. II. 109 Corchorus olitorius [etc.]..furnish the chief supply of the valuable fibre jute or gunny.
b. attrib., as gunny-bag, gunny-bagging, gunny-carpet, gunny-cloth, gunny-fibre, gunny-sack, gunny-sacking.
1764Account of Expences 5 Sept. in J. Long Select. Unpubl. Rec. Bengal (1869) I. 384 Baskets, gunny bags, and dubbers. 1798Wellington Suppl. Desp. (1858) I. 101 Shot carried on the backs of bullocks in gunny bags. 1800Asiatic Ann. Reg., Chron. 2/2 Upon removing some gunny-bags that were stowed close to the lazaretto. 1856Olmsted Slave States 630 A curtain or screen, of gunny-bagging. 1858J. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce 919/1 In 1841–42 there were exported from Calcutta..95,412 pieces of gunny cloth. 1862W. S. Ebey Diary 6 July in Pacific Northwest Q. (1943) XXXIV. 42 To look at the claims on the hill. They are on the rime rock & prospect very fine, as much as a dollar to the gunny sack. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 153 In India it [Jute] is used for making rice and sugar bags, called Gunny-bags. 1879H. King in Scribner's Mag. Nov. 133/1 The sunlight..changed the gunny carpet to cloth of gold. 1882Rep. to Ho. Repr. Prec. Met. U.S. 73 A stream of water..keeps the pulp in continual motion and passes off through another double set of sluices lined with coarse gunny sacks. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 349 I've ridden many a mile..with nothing but an old gunny-bag to sit on. 1960‘A. Burgess’ Doctor is Sick 166 He had brought with him a gunny sack which he emptied on to the floor—more fruit and vegetables. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai ix. 142 Across the opening hung gunny-sacking.
▪ II. gunny
dial. variant of goundy a. Obs. |