hoggan-bag

English

Noun

hoggan-bag (plural hoggan-bags)

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

References

“hoggan-bag” in James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho, 1847, OCLC 81046494, page 454, column 1.
Glossary of words in use in Cornwall (1880)

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