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bot⋅tle

1  [bot-l] noun, verb, -tled, -tling.
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–noun
1. a portable container for holding liquids, characteristically having a neck and mouth and made of glass or plastic.
2. the contents of such a container; as much as such a container contains: a bottle of wine.
3. bottled cow's milk, milk formulas, or substitute mixtures given to infants instead of mother's milk: raised on the bottle.
4. the bottle, intoxicating beverages; liquor: He became addicted to the bottle.
–verb (used with object)
5. to put into or seal in a bottle: to bottle grape juice.
6. British. to preserve (fruit or vegetables) by heating to a sufficient temperature and then sealing in a jar.
—Verb phrase
7. bottle up,
a. to repress, control, or restrain: He kept all of his anger bottled up inside him.
b. to enclose or entrap: Traffic was bottled up in the tunnel.
—Idiom
8. hit the bottle, Slang. to drink alcohol to excess often or habitually.
Origin:
1325–75; ME botel < AF; OF bo(u)teille < ML butticula, equiv. to LL butti(s) butt 4 + -cula -cule 1

Related forms:
bot⋅tle⋅like, adjective
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bot⋅tle

2  [bot-l]
–noun Architecture.
boltel (def. 2).

bol⋅tel

  [bohl-tuhl]
–noun Architecture.
1. Also, boutel, boutell, bowtel, bowtell. a convex molding, as a torus or ovolo.
2. Also, bottle. a curved fractable.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME boltell, equiv. to bolt bolt 1 + -ell n. suffix
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bot·tle   (bŏt'l)   
n.  

  1. A receptacle having a narrow neck, usually no handles, and a mouth that can be plugged, corked, or capped.

  2. The quantity that a bottle holds.

  3. A receptacle filled with milk or formula that is fed, as to babies, in place of breast milk.

  4. Informal

    1. Intoxicating liquor: Don't take to the bottle.

    2. The practice of drinking large quantities of intoxicating liquor: Her problem is the bottle.

tr.v.   bot·tled, bot·tling, bot·tles

  1. To place in a bottle.

  2. To hold in; restrain: bottled up my emotions.


[Middle English botel, from Old French botele, from Medieval Latin butticula, diminutive of Late Latin buttis, cask.]
bot'tler n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
bottle

  1. n.
    a drunkard. : The bar was empty save an old bottle propped against the side of a booth.
  2. n.
    the bottle liquor. (Always with the in this sense.) : Her only true love is the bottle.
  3. in.
    to drink liquor to excess. : Let's go out and bottle into oblivion.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

bottle 
1346, originally of leather, from O.Fr. boteille, from L.L. butticula dim. of L. buttis "a cask." The verb is first recorded 1641. Bottleneck in the fig. sense of "something obstructing even flow" (of traffic, production, etc.) is from 1896.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: bot·tle
Pronunciation: 'bät-&l
Function: noun
often attributive 1 : a rigid or semirigid containertypically of glass or plastic having a comparatively narrow neck or mouth and usually no handle —see WASH BOTTLE
2 : liquid food usually consisting of milk and supplements that is fed from a bottle (as to an infant) in place of mother's milk
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Bible Dictionary

Bottle

a vessel made of skins for holding wine (Josh. 9:4. 13; 1 Sam. 16:20; Matt. 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:37, 38), or milk (Judg. 4:19), or water (Gen. 21:14, 15, 19), or strong drink (Hab. 2:15). Earthenware vessels were also similarly used (Jer. 19:1-10; 1 Kings 14:3; Isa. 30:14). In Job 32:19 (comp. Matt. 9:17; Luke 5:37, 38; Mark 2:22) the reference is to a wine-skin ready to burst through the fermentation of the wine. "Bottles of wine" in the Authorized Version of Hos. 7:5 is properly rendered in the Revised Version by "the heat of wine," i.e., the fever of wine, its intoxicating strength. The clouds are figuratively called the "bottles of heaven" (Job 38:37). A bottle blackened or shrivelled by smoke is referred to in Ps. 119:83 as an image to which the psalmist likens himself.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Idioms & Phrases

bottle

In addition to the idiom beginning with bottle, also see crack a bottle; hit the bottle.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Encyclopedia

bottle

narrow-necked, rigid or semirigid container that is primarily used to hold liquids and semiliquids. It usually has a close-fitting stopper or cap to protect the contents from spills, evaporation, or contact with foreign substances.

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