water bougetn.
/ˈwɔːtə ˌbuːdʒɪt/, U.S. /ˈwɔdər ˌbudʒət/, /ˈwɑdər ˌbudʒət/ 1. A bag of skin or leather for carrying water, often used as one of a pair and carried on a yoke over the shoulder, or across the back of a horse. Now historical and rare.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > flask, flagon, or bottle > [noun] > leather > for water > for carrying water
water bulgec1225
water-bougec1450
water bodge1541
water bougeta1566
water bottle1591
water budget1591
water bag1638
a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Fjv These are no hose, but watter bougets..Good for none, but suche as haue no buttockes.
1599 J. Minsheu Dict. Eng. & Spanish in Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. 262/3 A water Bouget, vide Odre.
1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iv. xviii. 354 The Water-bowgets, which in ancient times were vsed to carry and conserue in the Campe that vsefull element of Water.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. vii. 320/1 A Chester Water Bouget (or Water Bags).
1727 F. Nichols Irish Compend. (ed. 2) Suppl. 44 The Water Bowget, which was made of Leather, was used by the Soldiers to preserve Water in the Camp, as also to carry that and other Liquors of the Army in long Marches.
1889 Birmingham Daily Post 19 Dec. 5/2 The probability was that these leather vessels were derived from the water bouget, which, in its turn, probably at the time of the Crusaders, was adapted from the more ancient wine-skins.
1948 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 96 246 In many early medieval records we can find references to water-bougets or budgets, used for carrying supplies, but no examples of these are known to exist.
2. Heraldry. A representation of a water bouget as a charge or bearing. Cf. bouget n.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of domestic items > [noun] > water bouget
gorge1562
water budget1562
bouge1572
bouget1592
water bouget1622
water bag1688
budget1766
1622 W. Burton Descr. Leicester Shire 40 In the Church these Coates of Armes..Or vpon two bares gueulles, 3 water Bougets Arg.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. vi. 75 He beareth Or, a Water Bowget, Sable.
1719 R. Rawlinson Hist. & Antiq. Cathedral Salisbury 262 Arms are Argent on a Chevron Gules Or. between 3 Water Bougets Sable, empaling Chapmans Arms.
1796 Daily Advertiser 2 Apr. Lost Yesterday Morning,..a Metal gilt Watch in a Tortoishell Case, the Arms painted on the Back of the Case, three Water Bougets sable on a Field Argent.
1859 J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. IV. vii. 250 Two shields of arms, on one of which are three water bougets.
1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xiii. 115 The lining is semée of small water-bougets, sable.
1951 Papers Brit. School Rome 19 158 A craftsman unfamiliar with the heraldry of northern Europe might have mistaken the water-bougets for halberds.
1992 C. Hardyment Home Comfort xi. 165 The arms of the Bushels of Bradley were three water bougets, that is, pairs of water skins hanging to form a yoke.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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