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  • noun Plural form of bottleholder.

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Examples

  • The British mind contemplates the spectacle of American destroyers acting as bottleholders to German submarines with a dazzled astonishment.

    War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war 1906

  • Cai and 'Bias walked away shamefacedly to seek out their bottleholders and collect each his hat, coat, and waistcoat.

    Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • And for all else, there were fights behind the school, in those pugilistic days scientifically conducted with seconds and bottleholders, and some

    My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886

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