water-bag

plural water-bags

1. alternativeAlternative form of waterbag.

   […] he went off alone with his family, and, watched by the day's red baleful eye, pumped the pump-car homeward, pausing at the summit of every bank to drink with greed from the water-bag and nurse his head.

   1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 194

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   Before long we had, willy-nilly, to replenish the water in our radiator from our water-bag, a canvas sack holding a few quarts, in which, thanks to evaporation through the canvas, the water remains cool even on the hottest day.

   1958, Henno Martin, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, The Sheltering Desert, Thomas Nelson & Sons, page 17