Lister bag

American  

noun

1. a canvas container used especially for supplying troops in the field with pure water.

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Example Sentences

His warm canteen was empty, and he was too distraught to remember the lister bag hanging outside in the shade between the two tents.

From Literature

Thus, when Hope referred to a North African native woman as "a Lister bag* with legs on," the boys in North Africa howled.

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