water-bag

See also: waterbag and water bag

English

Noun

water-bag (plural water-bags)

  1. Alternative form of waterbag
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia‎, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 194:
      […] he went off alone with his family, and, watched by the day's red baleful eye, pumped the pump-car homeward, pausing at the summit of every bank to drink with greed from the water-bag and nurse his head.
    • 1958, Henno Martin, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, The Sheltering Desert, Thomas Nelson & Sons, page 17:
      Before long we had, willy-nilly, to replenish the water in our radiator from our water-bag, a canvas sack holding a few quarts, in which, thanks to evaporation through the canvas, the water remains cool even on the hottest day.
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