BOTTLING

Noun

bottling (plural bottlings)

A batch of bottled liquids, as from a single vat, barrel, or seasonal growth.

The act of pelting (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.

Verb

bottling

present participle of bottle

Anagrams

• blotting

Source: Wiktionary


Bot"tling n.

Definition: The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.

BOTTLE

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



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