BOTTLE

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

2.
n.

The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.

3.
n.

Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.

4.
v.

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.

5.
n.

A bundle, esp. of hay. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. Shak.


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