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Budge barrel

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Budge \Budge\, a.
   1. Lined with budge; hence, scholastic. ``Budge gowns.''
      --Milton.

   2. Austere or stiff, like scholastics.

            Those budge doctors of the stoic fur. --Milton.

   {Budge bachelor}, one of a company of men clothed in long
      gowns lined with budge, who formerly accompanied the lord
      mayor of London in his inaugural procession.

   {Budge barrel} (Mil.), a small copper-hooped barrel with only
      one head, the other end being closed by a piece of
      leather, which is drawn together with strings like a
      purse. It is used for carrying powder from the magazine to
      the battery, in siege or seacoast service.
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