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Bottle

noun

A glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped.

The quantity contained in a bottle. Synonym: bottleful.

A vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children. Synonyms: feeding bottle, nursing bottle.

verb

(past & past part. bottled; pres. part. bottling)

Store (liquids or gases) in bottles.

Put into bottles.

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"Bottle" Quotes from Famous Books

... elements; but such is the fisherman's nature. I can faintly remember to have seen this same fisher in my earliest youth, still as near the river as he could get, with uncertain undulatory step, after so many things had gone down stream, swinging a scythe in the meadow, his bottle like a serpent hid in the grass; himself as yet not cut down ...

— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau

... reached out his hand toward his most precious possession, his sea-boots, as his forefathers had done before him for two hundred years at the sound of "John Darby." The women crammed into the pockets of the men's stiff oilskins a piece of bread, a half-filled bottle—knowing that, as often as not, their husbands must pass the night and half the next day on the beach, or out at sea, should the weather permit ...

— The Last Hope • Henry Seton Merriman

... my return to the land of the Franks, by ordering a beef-steak, and a bottle of porter, and bespeaking the paper from a gentleman in drab leggings, who had come from Manchester to look after the affairs of a commercial house, in which he or his employers were involved. He wondered that a hotel in ...

— Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family • Andrew Archibald Paton

... the difference between a bottle of medicine and a troublesome boy? One is to be well shaken before taken, and the other is to ...

— My Book of Indoor Games • Clarence Squareman

... unexpected happened. They had just sat down to the breakfast table. Though it was already eight o'clock (late breakfasts had followed naturally upon cessation of the steady work at mining) a candle in the neck of a bottle lighted the meal. Edith and Hans sat at each end of the table. On one side, with their backs to the door, sat Harkey and Dutchy. The place on the other side was vacant. Dennin had not yet ...

— Love of Life - and Other Stories • Jack London

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