'Bottle ale' definitions:
Definition of 'Bottle ale'
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- Bottle \Bot"tle\, n. [OE. bote, botelle, OF. botel, bouteille, F. bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. Butt a cask.]
- 1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound. [1913 Webster]
- Bottle ale, bottled ale. [Obs.] --Shak.
- Bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.
- Bottle fish (Zool.), a kind of deep-sea eel ({Saccopharynx ampullaceus}), remarkable for its baglike gullet, which enables it to swallow fishes two or three times its won size.
- Bottle flower. (Bot.) Same as Bluebottle.
- Bottle glass, a coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles. --Ure.
- Bottle gourd (Bot.), the common gourd or calabash (Lagenaria Vulgaris), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc.
- Bottle grass (Bot.), a nutritious fodder grass ({Setaria glauca} and Setaria viridis); -- called also foxtail, and green foxtail.
- Bottle tit (Zool.), the European long-tailed titmouse; -- so called from the shape of its nest.
- Bottle tree (Bot.), an Australian tree ({Sterculia rupestris}), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk.
- Feeding bottle, Nursing bottle, a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in feeding infants. [1913 Webster]