Definition of "water-bag" [water-bag]

• A bag of leather, rubber, or other suitable material for holding water. (noun)
• The reticulum of the stomach of the camel and other Camelidæ, corresponding to the honeycomb tripe of ordinary ruminants. (noun)
• In heraldry, a bearing representing a vessel for holding water, usually drawn as if a leather bucket. It differs from waler-bouget, or bouget, in retaining the form of the actual vessel. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "So who best to understand the dark alleys of the human mind than another frail, hairy, water-bag like me."
• "They took out the horses, and the chap got out a basket with cold beef and bread and half a tongue and a bottle of good whisky and water-bag."
• "Zemzemiyah, a goat-skin water-bag, which, especially when new, communicates to its contents a ferruginous aspect and a wholesome, though hardly an attractive, flavour of tanno-gelatine."