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hot-water bag

hot-water bag is the alternative form of hot water bag.

Meaning of hot water bag

Noun

hot water bag (plural hot water bags)

  1. (dated) A hot water bottle.
    • 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.1887, Oliver Wendell Holmes, chapter 1, in Our Hundred Days in Europe, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 20

Forms of hot-water bag

pluralhot-water bags

Questions about hot-water bag

What is hot-water bag the alternative form of?
Hot-water bag is the alternative form of hot water bag.

Words near hot-water bag in the dictionary

  1. hot-tubbed
  2. hot-tubber
  3. hot-tubbers
  4. hot-tubbing
  5. hot-tubs
  6. hot-water bag
  7. hot-water bags
  8. hot-water bottle
  9. hot-water bottles
  10. hot-water can
  11. hot-water cans

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