water bouget Obs. exc. Her.
† 1. A skin or leather bag formerly used to carry water, usually carried in pairs either slung across a stick over the shoulder or across the back of a horse.
| a 1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) F j b, These are no hose, but watter bougets,..Good for none, but suche as haue no buttockes. 1632 [see 2]. |
2. Her. = bouget.
| 1632 J. Guillim Heraldry iv. xviii. (ed. 2) 354 The Water⁓bowgets, which in ancient times were vsed to carry and conserue in the Campe that vsefull element of Water. 1688, 1859 [see bouget]. 1864 Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xiii. 115 The lining is semée of small water-bougets, sable. 1894 Parker's Gloss. Her., Water-bouget, a yoke with two large skins appended to it, formerly used for the conveyance of water to an army. |