Helen Fenton

Bottleholder: Definition and part of speech

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Bottleholder

  1. n. One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer.
  2. n. One who attends a pugilist in a prize fight; — so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Botch: Definition and part of speech

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Botch

  1. n. Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.
  2. n. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
  3. n. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Botcher: Definition and part of speech

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Botcher

  1. n. A young salmon; a grilse.
  2. n. One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler.
  3. n. A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.