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Webster 1913 Edition
Bottle
Bot′tle
,Noun.
[OE.
bote
, botelle
, OF. botel
, bouteille
, F. bouteille
, fr. LL. buticula
, dim. of butis
, buttis
, butta
, flask. Cf. 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 wine3.
Fig.: Intoxicating liquor;
as, to drown one’s reason in the
. bottle
☞ Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound.
Bottle ale
, bottled ale.
[Obs.]
Shak.
– Bottle brush
, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.
– Bottle fish
(Zool.)
, 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 flower
. (Bot.)
Same as
– Bluebottle
. Bottle glass
, a coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles.
Ure.
– Bottle gourd
(Bot.)
, the common gourd or calabash (
– Lagenaria Vulgaris
), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc. Bottle grass
(Bot.)
, a nutritious fodder grass (
– Setaria glauca
and Setaria viridis
); – called also foxtail
, and green foxtail
. Bottle tit
(Zool.)
, the European long-tailed titmouse; – so called from the shape of its nest.
– Bottle tree
(Bot.)
, an Australian tree (
– Sterculia rupestris
), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk. Feeding bottle
, Nursing bottle
a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in feeding infants.
Bot′tle
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bottled
p. pr. & vb. n.
Bottling
.] 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 wrathBot′tle
,Noun.
A bundle, esp. of hay.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Chaucer.
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bottle
BOT'TLE
,Noun.
1.
A hollow vessel of glass, wood, leather or other material, with a narrow mouth, for holding and carrying liquors. The oriental nations use skins or leather for the conveyance of liquors; and of this kind are the bottles mentioned in scripture. 'Put new wine into bottles.' In Europe and America, glass is used for liquors of all kinds; and farmers use small cags or hollow vessels of wood. The small kinds of glass bottles are called vials or phials.2.
The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; but from the size of bottles used for wine, porter and cyder, a bottle is nearly a quart; as a bottle of wine or a porter.3.
A quantity of hay in a bundle; a bundle of hay.BOT'TLE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
bottle
bottle
English
Alternative forms
- botl (Jamaican English)
Noun
bottle (plural bottles)
- A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 6, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.
- Beer is often sold in bottles.
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- The contents of such a container.
- I only drank a bottle of beer.
- A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
- The baby wants a bottle.
- (Britain, informal) Nerve, courage.
- You don't have the bottle to do that! He was going to ask her out, but he lost his bottle when he saw her.
- (attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) With one's hair color produced by dyeing.
- Did you know he's a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.
- (obsolete) A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
- End of the 14th century, The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Manciple's Prologue and Tale
- Is that a Cook of London, with mischance? / Do him come forth, he knoweth his penance; / For he shall tell a tale, by my fay, / Although it be not worth a bottle hay.
- 1599, Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene 1
- DON PEDRO. Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou wilt prove a notable argument.
- BENEDICK. If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot at me; and he that hits me, let him be clapped on the shoulder and called Adam.
- 1590s, Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
- I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse vanished away, and I sat upon a bottle of hay, never so near drowning in my life.
- End of the 14th century, The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Manciple's Prologue and Tale
- (figuratively) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
- to drown one's troubles in the bottle
- Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car" (song): See, my old man's got a problem. He live[sic] with the bottle; that's the way it is.
Synonyms
- (for feeding babies): baby's bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle (US)
- (courage): balls, courage, guts, nerve, pluck
Antonyms
- (courage): cowardice
Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun bottle
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Translations
container
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contents of such a container
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container with a rubber nipple — see baby bottle
nerve, courage
with one's hair dyed
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bundle
Descendants
- Georgian: ბოთლი (botli)
- Gujarati: બાટલી (bāṭalī)
- Indonesian: botol
- Malay: botol, بوتول
- Persian: بطری (botri)
See also
Verb
bottle (third-person singular simple present bottles, present participle bottling, simple past and past participle bottled)
- (transitive) To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
- This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.
- 2014 May 11, Ivan Hewett, “Piano Man: a Life of John Ogdon by Charles Beauclerk, review: A new biography of the great British pianist whose own genius destroyed him [print version: A colossus off-key, 10 May 2014, p. R27]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
- The temptation is to regard him [John Ogdon] as an idiot savant, a big talent bottled inside a recalcitrant body and accompanied by a personality that seems not just unremarkable, but almost entirely blank.
- (transitive, Britain) To feed (an infant) baby formula.
- Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.
- (Britain, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
- The rider bottled the big jump.
- (Britain, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle.
- He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.
- (Britain, slang) To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
- Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.
Derived terms
Translations
seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
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feed (an infant) baby formula
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refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage
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strike (someone) with a bottle
Etymology 2
From Middle English bottle, botle, buttle, from Old English botl, bold (“abode, house, dwelling-place, mansion, hall, castle, temple”), from Proto-Germanic *budlą, *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Cognate with North Frisian budel, bodel, bol, boel (“dwelling, inheritable property”), Dutch boedel, boel (“inheritance, estate”), Danish bol (“farm”), Icelandic ból (“dwelling, abode, farm, lair”). Related to Old English byldan (“to build, construct”). More at build.
Noun
bottle (plural bottles)