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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