English

Noun

hoggan-bag ‎(plural not attested)

1. (Cornwall, obsolete) A miner’s bag used to carry the miner’s provisions.

References

• “hoggan-bag” in A dictionary of archaic and provincial words, obsolete phrases, proverbs, and ancient customs, from the fourteenth century, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, published J. R. Smith, 1860.
• Glossary of words in use in Cornwall (1880)