hoggan-bag

English

Noun

hoggan-bag (plural hoggan-bags)

(Cornwall, obsolete) A miner's bag used to carry provisions.

References

James Orchard Halliwell (1846), “HOGGAN-BAG”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes (in English), volume I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], OCLC 1008510154, page 454, column 1.
Glossary of words in use in Cornwall (1880)

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