hot water bag

Definitions

A hot water bottle.

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Examples

“Nothing is more comfortable, nothing, I should say⟳, more indispensable, than a hot-water bag,—or rather, two hot-water bags; for they will burst⟳ sometimes, as I found out, and a passenger who has become⟳ intimate with one of these warm bosom friends feels its loss almost as if it were human.”

“Presently her stiff limbs relaxed in the gentle heat from her hot water bags.”

““I think⟳ he’s got flu, Mummy. He’s frightfully tired, for one thing. He’ll have⟳ to go to bed directly we get⟳ home. Could you light⟳ a fire in his room, and put⟳ a hot-water bag in the bed? […]””

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