Winebottleful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Winebottleful is a noun meaning Alternative form of wine-bottleful.
Meaning
Alternative form of wine-bottleful.
Example Sentences
What must I do if, at market-time or on a Saturday night, a customer wants a pennyworth each of paregoric and syrup of squills, or a pennyworth of laudanum in a winebottleful of vinegar and treacle?
Put a breakfastcupful of good hops into a saucepan with four quarts of cold water; let it be boiled slowly for five hours, until it is reduced to three quarts, or four winebottlefuls, and then strain.
Where pecuniary considerations forbid a journey to the baths, I order the artificial Karlsbad salts (one to two teaspoonfuls in half a winebottleful of hot water, of the temperature of 122° to 126.5° Fahr.) to be taken in the morning before eating.
The form I have always recommended is a teaspoonfull^([sic]) of bicarbonate of soda and a tablespoonful of eau de Cologne in a quart (a winebottleful) of water, a little hot water being added, if required, to warm the small quantity poured out for use.
Word Forms
- winebottlefuls
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wine bottleful, wineglassful, bottleful, barrelful, winebottle, waterglassful.
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