Obs. exc. Her.
† 1. A skin or leather bag formerly used to carry water, usually carried in pairs either slung across a stick over the shoulder or across the back of a horse.
a. 1566. R. Edwards, Damon & Pithias (1571), F j b. These are no hose, but watter bougets,… Good for none, but suche as haue no buttockes.
1632. [see 2].
2. Her. = BOUGET.
1632. Guillim, Heraldry, IV. xviii. (ed. 2), 354. The Water-bowgets, which in ancient times were vsed to carry and conserue in the Campe that vsefull element of Water.
1688, 1859. [see BOUGET].
1864. Boutell, Her. Hist. & Pop., xiii. 115. The lining is semée of small water-bougets, sable.
1894. Parker’s Gloss. Her., Water-bouget, a yoke with two large skins appended to it, formerly used for the conveyance of water to an army.
