Obs. [Cf the earlier WATER-BULGE.] = WATER-BOUGET. (In quots. Her.)
c. 1449. Pol. Poems (Rolls), II. 223. The Water-Bowge and the Wyne-Botelle, With the Vetturlockes cheyne bene fast.
1550. in Rep. MSS. Ld. Middleton (1911), 482. Two stampes of the water boudge for vessell. A brande of the water boudge to marke cattell.
1572. [see BOUGE sb.1 1 b.].
