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budge-barrel
[f. budge n.3 = bouge n.1, a leather bag + barrel n.]
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1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. xiv. 66 A Budgbarrell is a little Barrell made of Latten, filled with powder to carry from place to place for feare of fire; in the couer it hath a long necke to fill the Ladles withall without opening. 1696Phillips, Budge-barrel, a little Tin-barrel to carry Powder in for fear of fire. 1828J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner s.v. Barrel, Budge-barrels. These barrels are employed in the service of batteries, and have leather covers drawing together like the mouth of a bag. 1862F. Griffiths Artil. Man. (ed. 9) 93 Budge Barrels. Weight of barrel, copper-hooped, 10 lb. |