bowser: mobile water dispenser

[Michael Quinion]

> Not in OED. Closest sense is bowser2, 'petrol pump or tanker'; see below.
> This can be subsumed as a transference, but it's outside the chiefly
> antipodean usage area.

The water-wagon sense is peculiarly British. Noted in my newsletter this
week. See

  http://www.worldwidewords.org/nl/hawz.htm#N3


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