Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the quantity contained in a bottle.
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- noun as much as a
bottle will hold
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quantity contained in a bottle
Etymologies
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Examples
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For apiece bottleful you buy, $5 module be donated to Room to Read, a transformational non-profit that brings books, libraries and finally literacy to grouping in the worst areas around the world.
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For apiece bottleful you buy, $5 module be donated to Room to Read, a transformational non-profit that brings books, libraries and finally literacy to grouping in the worst areas around the world.
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He poured briquettes from the bag into the fire-box of the barbecue and then poured the whole bottleful of lighter fuel over the briquettes.
They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff
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They still had wine with dinner, which Rossetti downed by the bottleful, but he no longer had gin or scotch afterward, and he did seem better for it.
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They still had wine with dinner, which Rossetti downed by the bottleful, but he no longer had gin or scotch afterward, and he did seem better for it.
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They still had wine with dinner, which Rossetti downed by the bottleful, but he no longer had gin or scotch afterward, and he did seem better for it.
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Uhm...try that in smog filled Metro Manila and it lands you in Medical City, with a bottleful of antibiotics.
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Yet I find it not to be an essential ingredient, and after going without it for a year am still in the land of the living; and I am glad to escape the trivialness of carrying a bottleful in my pocket, which would sometimes pop and discharge its contents to my discomfiture.
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Were a bottleful of concentrated miasma, such as we inhale herein, collected, what a deadly poison, instantaneous in its action, undiscoverable in its properties, would it be!
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Anne Kearns has the lumbago for which she rubs on Lourdes water, given her by a lady who got a bottleful from a passionist father.
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