towsack

A regional term in the Upper South for a gunnysack. A bag or sack made from some course, heavy fabric, like gunny, burlap, jute, or hemp.

//Jewel’s hat droops limp about his neck, channeling water onto the soaked **towsack** tied about his shoulders as, ankle-deep in the running ditch, he pries with a slipping two-by-four, with a piece of rotting log for fulcrum, at the axle.//

--AILD (52)