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brin n EDD ~ sb2 obs D 'strong linen' (1892); DC
(1941-), ~ bag (Nfld: 1924-). Possibly from brinded: OED 'of a tawny or
brownish colour'; EDD ppl adj 1.
1 Strong,
coarse-woven sacking; burlap (P 245-56).
[c1905] P 102--60 The
brin was sold by the yard double width about 36 in. wide. 1924: see brin bag
below. 1937 DEVINE 25 Grogram [is] thick, brown brin or canvas for boat sails. T
43/7-64 Burlap is the Canadian name for brin, but Newfoundland people call it brin. 1966
PADDOCK 109 Brin is the common word for the coarse sacking fabric composing the
large, strong sacks for vegetables, animal feeds, and other heavy, bulky products.
2 Comb brin apron: capacious apron, reaching from
neck to knees, made from coarse sacking material; BARVEL.
T 88-64
[The days] when you use sawdust on your floor, and your mother put on a barbel, brin
apron, and scrubbed the floor—that's not coming to pass those days, is it?
brin bag: a sack made of burlap.
1924
ENGLAND 36 Atop the cabin housing lay frozen beef wrapped in dirty 'brin-bags,' which we
call gunnysacks. 1933 MERRICK 18 Cecil wants a brinbag to jam some traps in and Arch is
'bringing to' a trout net. T 43/7-64 A brin bag—'twas fine, usually 'twould be an
oat bag or a meal bag or a bread bag. T 45/6-64 This feller empted the beef out o' the
brin bags and filled it up with birch junks. 1966 Evening Telegram 3 Apr You said
those who voted against Confederation should put on brin bags and go about in sack cloth
and ashes. P 198-67 The potatoes were in a brin bag. C 69-23 If you wish to take the
broodiness out of a hen you put it in a brin bag (burlap bag) and push it wholly under
salt water. 1970 JANES 16 She was put to work in the chant's canning factory where all
hands wore a stiff apron made from a material known as brin bag. 1976 CASHIN 68 He was
busy at the time putting blubber into specially made brin bags to be pressed out for any
oil that might remain in the rotten livers.
brin sack: see
brin bag above.
[cl905] P 102-60 The old S.S. Neptune
... would take on part of a cargo of salt in the after hold leaving enough space
above the salt and below decks for the fishermen to lay out their sea-chests and brin
sacks filled with shavings or straw collected from some of the crockeryware departments
in the city. T 43/7-64 In them times you used to get this hard bread in a brin sack.
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