bottle
noun
- container of liquids
verb
- preserve in a glass container
- to place in a bottle
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈbɒt.l̩/ / /ˈbɑ.tl̩/ / /ˈbɔʔʊ/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English botel (“bundle (of hay)”), from Old French botel, ultimately related to modern French botte (“bundle”).
- A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
“I was no ſooner in the middle of the pond, but my horſe vaniſht away, and I ſat vpon a bottle of hey, neuer ſo neare drowning in my life: […]”
“[…]Me-thinkes I haue a great deſire to a bottle of hay: good hay, ſweete hay hath no fellow.”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeHw-der. Ancient Greekbor.? Latin buttis Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Proto-Italic *-kelos Latin -culus Late Latin butticula Old French boteillebor. Middle English botel English bottle From Middle English botel (“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula, diminutive of buttis (“cask”). Doublet of botija. Displaced native pinne and non-native Old English ampella. Partially displaced Old English flasce.
- To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
“This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.”
“The temptation is to regard him [John Ogdon] as an idiot savant, a big talent bottled inside a recalcitrant body and accompanied by a personality that seems not just unremarkable, but almost entirely blank.”
- To feed (an infant) baby formula.
“Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.”
- To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
“The rider bottled the big jump.”
- To throw away a leading position.
“Arsenal bottled the Premier League.”
- To strike (someone) with a bottle.
“He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.”
- To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
“Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.”
- Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
“Closely related to creep is the process of bottling. As you may have noticed from your folded sheet of paper, pages don't merely creep when they're folded — they also rotate slightly. This rotation or bottling is caused by the thickness or bulk of the paper.”