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n.Chiefly Western U.S. （名词）【多用于美国西部】 A bag or sack made of gunny.Also called Regional crocus sack Regional croker sack Regional tow bag Regional tow sack 黄麻袋：由黄麻袋制成的小袋或大麻袋也作 【区域的】 crocus sack【区域的】 croker sack【区域的】 tow bag【区域的】 tow sack
<注释>A large sack made from loosely woven,coarse material such as burlapgoes by a variety of names in regional American English.In the greater West the usual term isgunnysack, which ultimately comes from the Sanskrit wordgono, meaning .jute or hemp fiber..In the Upper Southsuch a sack is called atow sack, and in Eastern North Carolina,atow bag. (The word tow is another synonym for fabric made from jute or hemp and probably derives from an Old English word for .spinning..) In the Lower Souththe same type of bag is called acrocus sack or a croker sack, both terms deriving from the wordcrocus. According to Craig M. Carver, who draws on the research of Walter S. Avis,.Crocus is a coarse, loosely woven material once worn by slaves and laborers and common in colonial New England. It probably took its name from the sacks in which crocus or saffron was shipped..Though the termcrocus sack had virtually disappeared from New England by the end of the 9th century, it survives in the South.这种由编织疏松的粗布材料，比如粗麻制成的大麻袋，在美国的各地有着各种不同的叫法。在广阔的西部，通常的叫法是gunnysack， 这个词推至其本源是从梵文的goni 而来， 意思是.黄麻或大麻纤维.。在美国南部靠北的地区，这种口袋被叫做tow sack， 而在北卡罗来纳州的东部，人们称它为tow bag （ tow 这个词是大麻或黄麻织物的另外一个同义词，这个词很可能是从古英语中.spinning.编织这个词而来）。 在美国南部靠南那些地区，这种类型的口袋被叫做crocus sack 或者是 croker sack ， 两者都由得自单词crocus 。 克雷格·M·卡弗尔在参考了沃尔特·Ｓ·阿维斯的研究资料后得出结论：.Crocus 原是新英格兰殖民区中奴隶和苦力穿的一种编织疏松，粗糙的布料， 它很可能是由装载番红花和藏红花的布袋而得名.。尽管crocus sack 这个词到9世纪末在新英格兰已经被废弃， 但在南方人们还一直使用这个词
