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ˈwater-bag
1. a. A bag of skin or leather used for holding or carrying water, esp. one used in Eastern countries for transporting and distributing water.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. ii. (ed. 2) 242 Having soak't their hussinees or water baggs, the wine bottles are then emptied. 1659–60Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) II. 245, 1 pair of water bags. 1779Louth Corporation Acc. (1891) 67 Pd. to John Jeffery for him to get a pair of new Water Bags..10s. 6d. 1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 87/1 This skin..is used by the natives for making water-bags, in which they convey supplies of water from the nearest vley or fountain..to the village. 1895A. C. Wilson 5 Yrs. in India 262 The water-carrier, with his water-bag of goat⁓skin slung over his left shoulder.
b. Austral. A bag, freq. of canvas, used for carrying water, esp. on journeys in dry areas.
1892[see shiralee]. 1903‘T. Collins’ Such is Life (1937) i. 47 Helping myself to a drink from the water-bag under the rear of Thompson's wagon. 1944Living off Land iii. 57 Don't carry a reserve supply of water in a waterbag; evaporation alone can dry it all up in a few hours in hot weather. 1969P. A. Smith Folklore Austral. Railwaymen 19 The water was no good. We'd bring it out in boiling buckets and then fill the gang's water bags.
†2. Her. In pl. form = water-bouget 2. Obs.
1688Holme Armoury iii. 295/2 He beareth Or, a Water Bowget, Sable. This is the form of the Bowget in ancient times, and was called a Water Budget, or Water Baggs.
3. (See quot. 1859.)
1836Penny Cycl. VI. 189/1 The..free communication which subsists between the water-bag and rumen in the camel tribe. 1859T. S. Cobbold Ruminantia in Todd's Cycl. Anat. V. 536/2 The second stomachal viscus..other⁓wise called the reticulum, bonnet, or water-bag..is of much smaller dimensions than the paunch, and forms a sort of cul-de-sac between it and the third cavity.
4. ‘An india-rubber bag for holding hot water for local application’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1899).
1895in Funk's Stand. Dict. |