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bottle

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1. bottle - Noun

2. bottle - Verb

Meaning

A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.

Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.

To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.

A bundle, esp. of hay.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. Jonathan Swift

[On religion] I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, benzedrine or a bottle of Jack Daniel's. Frank Sinatra

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. Charles Baudelaire

Medicine left in the bottle can't help. Yoruba Proverb

A word of kindness is better than a bottle of vodka. Russian Proverb

The cork is always bigger than the mouth of the bottle. Estonian Proverb

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