Bottle
Bottle ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Old English bote, botelle, Old French botel, bouteille, French bouteille, from Late Latin buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Compare Butt a cask.]
1.
A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
2.
The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
3.
Figuratively: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.
Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound.
Collocations (10)
Bottle ale , bottled ale. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare
Bottle brush , a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.
Bottle fish (Zoology) , a kind of deep-sea eel (Saccopharynx ampullaceus), remarkable for its baglike gullet, which enables it to swallow fishes two or three times its won size.
Bottle glass , a coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles. — Ure
Bottle gourd (Botany) , the common gourd or calabash (Lagenaria Vulgaris), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc.
Bottle grass (Botany) , a nutritious fodder grass (Setaria glauca and Setaria viridis); -- called also foxtail, and green foxtail.
Bottle tit (Zoology) , the European long-tailed titmouse; -- so called from the shape of its nest.
Bottle tree (Botany) , an Australian tree (Sterculia rupestris), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk.
Feeding bottle or Nursing bottle , a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in feeding infants.
Bottle ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.
Bottle , noun
[Old English botel, Old French botel, dim. of French botte; compare Old High German bozo bunch. See Boss stud.]
A bundle, esp. of hay. [Obsolete or Provincial English] — Chaucer