bottle

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Nothing extraordinary there … even the bottle was the standard kind of bottle you normally see every where … .. the box went around and you can tell women were trying to guess the mahar amount …

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  1. noun A receptacle having a narrow neck, usually no handles, and a mouth that can be plugged, corked, or capped.
  2. noun The quantity that a bottle holds.
  3. noun A receptacle filled with milk or formula that is fed, as to babies, in place of breast milk.
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  • The content of the bottle was alcohol, odor proved. —  042 - The Midas Man
  • Nothing extraordinary there … even the bottle was the standard kind of bottle you normally see every where … .. the box went around and you can tell women were trying to guess the mahar amount … —  Safat: The KuwaitBlogs' Aggregator
  • We belong to a profession, in which the bottle is an enemy more to be feared, than any that the king can give us. —  The Two Admirals
  • That old Flores had knocked Pete out with a bottle was the one and extravagant act that even Malvey himself could hardly have anticipated had the whole miserable affair been prearranged. —  The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
  • The running for the bottle will be a good excuse,' says he, 'so I think we had better move home before they go too far in the drink Well, any way, there was truth in this; so, accordingly, the reckoning was ped, and, as this was the thrate of the weddiners to the bride and bridegroom, every one of the men clubbed his share, but neither I nor the girls anything. —  The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
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glass ·  cup ·  jar ·  bag ·  container ·  drink ·  wine ·  mug ·  plate ·  clothe ·  tube ·  barrel

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bottle:   bottled ·  bottling ·  bottles

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  1. Middle English botel, from Old French botele, from Medieval Latin butticula, diminutive of Late Latin buttis, cask.

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  1. Middle English, also botle, buttle, from Anglo-Saxon botl (= Old Saxon bodl = OFries. bodel = Icelandic bōl (also deriv. bæli), a dwelling, abode, farm, also lair, den, = Danish bol, a farm, böl, bölle, in local names); cf. bold, a dwelling (later byldan, English build, q. v.), and būr (later English bower), a dwelling; from būan (√ *bu), dwell: see bower, bond, etc.
  2. Early modern English also bottel, botle; from Middle English botel, bottelle = Dutch bottel = Low German buttel, buddel, from Old French botel, masculine, also boutelle, boutille, French bouteille = Provencal Portuguese botelha = Spanish botella = Italian bottiglia, from Middle Latin buticula, feminine, diminutive of butis, buttis, butta (later Old French boute, French botte), a butt: see butt.
  3. from bottle, n.
  4. Early modern English also bottel, botelle, botle; from Middle English botel, from Old French botel, masculine, equivalent to botelle, feminine, diminutive of botte, a bundle: see bott.
 

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