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Definition of Tucker-bag
1. Noun. A bag used for carrying food. "The swagman filled his tuckerbag"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tucker-bag
Literary usage of Tucker-bag
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Australian Life in Town and Country by Ernest Charles Buley (1905)
"When he wishes to replenish his "tucker-bag," he can usually approach the ...
From the tucker-bag, a sort of pillowslip with the mouth in the middle, ..."
2. Navy Song Book edited by Barry Leonard (1998)
"And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker bag, "You'll come ...
"Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag? ..."
3. Read & Understand Poetry, Grades 3-4 by Michael Ryall, Evan-Moor Educational Publishers (2005)
"Down came a jumbuck to drink at the water hole, Up jumped the swagman and grabbed
him with glee; And he sang as he stowed him away in his tucker bag, ..."
4. Wandering Jew Card Game. by Robert D. Manning (1986)
"Down came the jumbuck to drink at the water-hole, Up jumped the swagman and
grabbed him with glee, And he sang as he put him away in his tucker-bag, ..."
5. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine by Freeman Hunt (1847)
"Beverly Tucker bag written a letter to the editors of the " Southern Standard "
in which he gives the following as the most rational account that he has ..."
6. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1899)
"... business in life is to hang about a camp and rob the " tucker " bag.
Everything eatable has to be hung out of his reach, as well as inclosed in bags, ..."
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