† ˈcloak-bag Obs.
For forms see cloak n.; also 6–8 Sc. clog-bag.
A bag in which to carry a cloak or other clothes; a portmanteau, valise.
| 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 454 Fillit sindry dry leddren polkis full of small stanis, and band thame togidder, in maner of clogboggis, to thair hors. 1552 Huloet, Cloke bagge, penularium. 1579 Gosson Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 26 Pythagoras bequeathes them a Clookebagge. 1632 Lithgow Trav. vii. (1682) 291 Delivering me the keys of their three Clogbags before the Consul. [So always in this book.] 1658 Osborn Jas. I (1673) 533 A Cloak-bag full of dried Sweet-meats and Confects. 1756 M. Calderwood Jrnl. (1884) 51 John Rattray was laid before my bed, with his head on a clog-bag. 1841 Lane Arab. Nts. (Rtldg.) 13 He mounted his horse, and with only a cloak-bag behind him, etc. |
b. transf. and fig.
| 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 497 That stuft Cloake-bagge of Guts. 1602 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. iv. ii. (Arb.) 55 You that are a plague stuffed Cloake-bagge of all iniquitie. |
c. attrib.
| 1619 H. Hutton Follies Anat. 22 Rayling on cloake-bagge breeches. a 1641 Suckling Fragm. Aurea (1648) 61 His garters or his Cloak-bag strings. 1655 Francion 63 Long Cloak-bag-string dashes. |