hot water bottle
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container usually made from plastic or other materials filled with hot water used for heating
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Antique metal hot-water bottle from 1925 English Stoneware bed warmer and stopper Two modern hot-water bottles shown with their stoppers A hot-water bottle is a bottle filled with hot water and sealed with a stopper, used to provide warmth, typically while in bed, but also for the application of heat to a specific part of the body.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hot water bottle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.