hot-water bag
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Inventions for which patents have recently been granted by the U. S. Patent Office: > A hot-water bag equipped with projecting fins to prevent burns.
From Time Magazine Archive
The heat may be by bran poultice, fomentation, or hot-water bag and moist flannel.
From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk
About his wasted legs was wrapped a carriage robe, and she knew that there was a hot-water bag under his feet.
From The Conflict by David Graham Phillips
Then the door was thrust open and Sallie Marks marched in flourishing a hot-water bag in one hand and a thermos bottle in the other.
From Molly Brown's Sophomore Days by Nell Speed
I'm going up to see that the child has a hot-water bag to her feet, and a mustard plaster on her chest.
From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Maud Wilder Goodwin
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