Meaning of hoggan-bag | Babel Free

Definitions

A miner's bag used to carry provisions.

Cornwall, obsolete

Examples

“[page 39:] Baccy, with cowals for the chowters, Saalt pilchers, and some ' taties, Eggs, clidgy, traade, and hoganbags, Gowks, sparables, and lattice. [page 45:] When, who but your man com a tott'ring along, / So drunk that I thoft fath, he'd fall⟳ in the doong. A let⟳ tumble hes hoggan bag jist by the dour, So I cal'd to the man, as one woud to be shoar. Says I, "Martin, dost hire⟳, cheel, tak up tha bag."”

“To his work⟳ he carries from the surface his keg of water, his “hoggan-bag,” and a tin, carelessly slung over his shoulder, which is full of charges[…]”

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