Bottle: Definition and part of speech

Bottle

  1. n. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one’s reason in the bottle.
  2. n. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
  3. n. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.

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.

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