hot water bag

plural hot water bags · alternative hot-water bag · alternative hotwater bag

1. datedA hot water bottle.

   Presently her stiff limbs relaxed in the gentle heat from her hot water bags.

   1931, Ethel Lina White, chapter 5, in Put Out the Light, London: Wark Lock

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   Nothing is more comfortable, nothing, I should say, more indispensable, than a hot-water bag,—or rather, two hot-water bags; for they will burst sometimes, as I found out, and a passenger who has become intimate with one of these warm bosom friends feels its loss almost as if it were human.

   1887, Oliver Wendell Holmes, chapter 1, in Our Hundred Days in Europe, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 20

   “I think he’s got flu, Mummy. He’s frightfully tired, for one thing. He’ll have to go to bed directly we get home. Could you light a fire in his room, and put a hot-water bag in the bed? […]”

   1957, Neville Shute, On the Beach, New York: William Morrow