Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wine-skin.
- noun A person who indulges frequently and largely in wine.
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Examples
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The body, streaming blood like a squirting wine-bag, tumbled down on to the courtyard's cobbles.
Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987
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As if they were of red wine, you might better have said, replied Sancho Panza; for I would let you to understand, if you know it not already, that the dead giant is a bored wine-bag, and the blood six-and-thirty gallons of red wine, which it contained in its belly.
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Sancho likewise, held his peace, eating acorns, and in the meanwhile visited very often the second wine-bag, which, because it might be fresh, was hanged upon a cork-tree.
The Second Book. III. Of That Which Passed between Don Quixote and Certain Goatherds 1909
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Sancho, "for I would have you know, if you do not know already, that the dead giant is no other than a ruined wine-bag, and the blood six-and-twenty gallons of red wine."
The Junior Classics — Volume 4 William Patten 1902
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As an occasional party-giver, I often find a bottle brought by a guest that was delivered with no card or got separated from its wine-bag.
Box Wines 2009
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Utriculi (dimin. from Uter, a wine-bag or bottle).
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Though I think it will not now be necessary, for doubtless the giant is dead by now, and giving an account of the ill life he led; for I saw his blood was all about the house and his head cut off, which is as big as a great wine-bag. "
The Junior Classics — Volume 4 William Patten 1902
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