† water-bougen.
Chiefly Heraldry. Obsolete.
A bag of skin or leather for carrying water, often used as one of a pair and carried on a yoke; a heraldic representation of this; = water bouget n.
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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
c1450 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 202 The water bowge and the wyne botelle With the Vetturlockes cheyne ben fast.
a1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 221 He that beholdyth you..Shal neuer haue cause in hert to be Iocound, Rememberyng your grete hede..And eyþer of youre pappys like a water-bowge.
1550 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Ld. Middleton (1911) 482 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 5567) XXVII. 1 Two stampes of the water boudge for vessell. A brande of the water boudge to marke cattell.
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 30 v D. beareth Or, three water bowges Sable in chefe.
c1632 in W. Cole & W. M. Palmer Monumental Inscriptions & Coats of Arms from Cambridgeshire (1932) 245 Argent a cross engrailed gules inter four water bourges Sa[ble]. quartered with gules billet or a fess argent on the left hand [etc.]
1717 T. Abingdon Antiq. Cathedral Church Worcester 10 In the second Pane..a Cross ingrail'd Gules between four Water Bouges Sable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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