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 Josh Spilker 2010
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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.
The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007
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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.
The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007
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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.
The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007
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Uhm...try that in smog filled Metro Manila and it lands you in Medical City, with a bottleful of antibiotics.
What's New With Tarie Tarie 2005
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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.
Walden 2004
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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!
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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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.
Ulysses 2003
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