blue bag

Lady Jane left the room, and returned with a blue-bag, which she applied to James's swollen hand and cheek.

The wife of William East, an English paper-maker, accidentally let a blue-bag fall into one of the vats of pulp.

Ask Jim Crute, with his ear like a blue-bag, that he chucked out o' the bar like a kitten, last week!

Or, a washerwoman's blue-bag, applied in the same manner, will have a like effect.