Tooth-bottle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tooth-bottle is a noun meaning (obsolete) A small metal bottle often used to contain a small amount of alcohol.
Meaning
(obsolete) A small metal bottle often used to contain a small amount of alcohol.
Example Sentences
The tooth-bottle is at your elbow.
They filled up their glasses with the red wine from the tooth-bottle and they had other little glasses of brown wine as well.
But perhaps the most interesting of these fragments in pale-green metal is the neck from a bottle, in shape and size resembling a washstand 'tooth bottle', but with a flatly everted orifice.
Word Forms
- tooth-bottles
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include toothful, bottle, picktooth, winebottle, toothmug, beerbottle.
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