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vatje S. Afr.|ˈfacɪ|
Also fadje, fagie, fatje, fikey, vaatjie, vaitje.
[ad. Afrikaans vaatjie, dim. of vat water-carrier (see fat n.1).]
A small cask or barrel for carrying water or wine; a soldier's canteen.
1850R. G. Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. i. 7/1 The..general stores which I carried with me were as follows:..2 large ‘fagie’ or water-casks, [etc.]. 1871J. McKay Reminisc. Last Kafir War ii. 8 The soldier acts as the beast of burden, having been supplied with a large wooden vessel, by soldiers called ‘fadje’, or keg, capable of holding about half a gallon; and in this he had to carry with him what water he thought necessary. 1871J. Mackenzie Ten Yrs. North of Orange River vii. 115 Khosimore jealously guarded his ‘vatjes’, or water⁓vessels. 1891E. Glanville Fossicker xix. 166 One of the three rose up..took a final pull at the water ‘fikey’, and stretched himself on the bare ground. 1909Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 28/1 Some Congo brandy and a vatje of water. 1951L. G. Green Fully Many a Glorious Morning xviii. 234 We gave up part of a vaatjie of red wine and soaked it and then roasted it in front of a huge fire. 1970in Voorloper (1976) 833 The coloured people buy their wine in a vaatjie for celebrations. |