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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A thick strong bottle, usually made of green or black glass.
Examples
“It receives its name from its resemblance in shape to a junk-bottle.”
“So the man laughed, and opened his mouth; and Jackson made him step out under the scuttle, where the light came down from deck; and then made him throw his head back, while he looked into it, and probed a little with his jackknife, like a baboon peering into a junk-bottle.”
“_ Send a junk-bottle to the butcher, and have several gall-bladders emptied into it.”
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
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Bottle Collection
I have a sizable collection of fiddle- and banjo-shaped bottles. Some quite old, others not so old.
ampule, ampulla, amula, baby’s bottle, Balthazar, beer bottle, betty, biberon, bidon, bijugue, bombard, borachte and 95 more...
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