hoggan-bag

noun

A miner's bag used to carry provisions.

Meanings

nounhoggan-bag (plural hoggan-bags)

plural hoggan-bags

  1. CornwallobsoleteA miner's bag used to carry provisions.

    To his work he carries from the surface his keg of water, his “hoggan-bag,” and a tin, carelessly slung over his shoulder, which is full of charges[…]

    1901, The Windsor Magazine, page 325
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    [page 39:] Baccy, with cowals for the chowters, Saalt pilchers, and some ' taties, Eggs, clidgy, traade, and hoganbags, Gowks, sparables, and lattice. [page 45:] When, who but your man com a tott'ring along, / So drunk that I thoft fath, he'd fall in the doong. A let tumble hes hoggan bag jist by the dour, So I cal'd to the man, as one woud to be shoar. Says I, "Martin, dost hire, cheel, tak up tha bag."

    1846, William Sandys, Specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialect

Origin

From hoggan (“pork pasty”), which see for more.

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