Meaning of dilly bag | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A traditional Australian Aboriginal string bag, made from twisted bark fibres and used for gathering food.
   Australia
2. Any similar loose bag with a large strap, normally made of soft cloth.
   Australia, broadly
3. Synonym of ditty bag.

Examples

“I learned, too, at the camp to plait dilly-bags, to chop sugar-bags (otherwise hives of native bees) out of trees, to make drinking-vessels from gourds, and to play the jews′-harp.”

“The man had a long forked beard and carried a spear or two, and a spear-thrower. The woman carried a dilly-bag and a baby at her breast.”

“The woman carried two small battered suitcases, fastened with rope, and a plastic dilly bag; the man carried only a scent of garlic.”

“She handed him a slip of paper with the address of her uncle′s property in Penrith an outlying suburb of Sydney and he tucked it into his dilly bag to record in his diary for safekeeping.”

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