hoggan-bag

English

Noun

hoggan-bag (plural hoggan-bags)

1. (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, volumes I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 454, column 1.
• Glossary of words in use in Cornwall (1880)