In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
bottled
simple past tense and past participle of bottle
bottled (comparative more bottled, superlative most bottled)
Packaged in a bottle.
(slang) drunk
Shaped or protuberant like a bottle.
Kept in restraint; bottled up.
• (packaged in a bottle)
• (drunk): See drunk
• (bottle-shaped): lecythiform
• (Kept in restraint): contained, suppressed
• blotted
Source: Wiktionary
Bot"tled, a.
1. Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle.
2. Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant. Shak.
Bot"tle, n. Etym: [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.
2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
3. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.
Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound. Bottle ale, bottled ale. [Obs.] Shak.
– Bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.
– Bottle fish (Zoöl.), 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 S. viridis); -- called also foxtail, and green foxtail.
– Bottle tit (Zoöl.), 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 tubve), used in feeding infants.
Bot"tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bottled p. pr. & vb. n. Bottling.]
Definition: 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.
Bot"tle, n. Etym: [OE. botel, OF. botel, dim. of F. botte; cf. OHG. bozo bunch. See Boss stud.]
Definition: A bundle, esp. of hay. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 November 2024
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.