Bottleholder: Definition and part of speech

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.

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