haybag

See also: hay bag

English

Etymology

From hay +‎ bag.

Noun

haybag (plural haybags)

1. Alternative form of hay bag (“bag filled with hay”)
   • 1998, Robert A. Mischka, It's Showtime!: A Beginner's Guide to Showing Draft Horses‎^[1], Mischka Press/Heart Prairie, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62:

     If your horses are being kept in slip stalls you will find it convenient to feed their hay in haybags.

2. (slang, derogatory) Alternative form of hay bag (“a woman”)
   • 2015, E. C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott, Helena Huntington Smith, We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher (page 78)

     The only women in the town were the storekeeper's wife, and a fat old haybag who had been scalped by Indians at the mouth of the Musselshell a few years before, and was laying up with the barber.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary