bouget

The heraldic sense derives from an older spelling and meaning of budget, "small bag" (compare Middle English bouget, bowgett (“a leather bag or wallet”)), from Middle French bougette (“little pouch”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuːdʒɪt/, /ˈbuːdʒɛt/, /ˈbuːɡɛt/

bouget (plural bougets)

1. Obsolete form of budget (“purse, bag; etc”).
2. (heraldry) A charge resembling a yoke and a pair of the water bags that were formerly used to supply an army in battle.

   Synonym: water-bouget

• bowget

• “bouget”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• “bouget”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “bouget”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “bouget”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• outbeg