ˈwater-budge
Also 7 -bugge.
† a. = water-bouget. Obs. b. dial. A cask on wheels, to serve as a water-cart.
| 1541 Rutland MSS. (1905) IV. 310 For ij halters for the water budgis, ij d. for shoyng of the water budges horse, vj d. 1603 Stow Surv. 349 Stephen Bugge Gent. his Armes be three water bugges, 1419. 1897 A. V. Carr Cottage Folk 3 The stubble-field where her comrades [sc. hoppers in Sussex] were laughing and chattering around the water⁓budge that had been drawn up in its midst. |