† water-bouge Obs.
[Cf. the earlier water bulge.]
= water-bouget. (In quots. Her.)
| c 1449 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 223 The Water-Bowge and the Wyne-Botelle, With the Vetturlockes cheyne bene fast. 1550 in Rep. MSS. Ld. Middleton (1911) 482 Two stampes of the water boudge for vessell. A brande of the water boudge to marke cattell. 1572 [see bouge n.1 1 b.]. |