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waterbag en · NOUN

Etymology

From water + bag.

Meanings

1. A bag for carrying water.
   • Somewhat later, Ayla picked up her waterbag to get a drink, found it empty, then put it down and forgot about her thirst. 2010, Jean M. Auel, The Shelters of Stone, →ISBN:
   • Who'll come a'waltzing Matilda my darling Who'll come a'waltzing Matilda with me Waltzing Matilda and leading a water-bag Who'll come a'waltzing Matilda with me. 1895, “Waltzing Matilda”, Banjo Paterson (lyrics):
   • We had no waterbags. We lived on the veldfoods that quite by chance I had learned to pick out by keeping an eye on the bearers. 1983, Wilma Stockenström, translated by J. M. Coetzee, The Expedition to the Baobab Tree, London: Faber & Faber, page 90:
   • The men took their lunch, usually Romano cheese, ham or Italian sausage and bread, and a waterbag. 2011, Lenore Layman, Criena Fitzgerald, 110 degrees in the Waterbag, →ISBN, page 165:
2. (historical) The bag-like compartment in a camel's hump in which the animal was once believed to store water; in fact it is fatty tissue.

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water cell