Anaclastic glass

a glass or phial, shaped like an inverted funnel, and with a very thin convex bottom. By sucking out a little air, the bottom springs into a concave form with a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the orifice, the bottom, with a like noise, springs into its former convex form.

See also: Anaclastic

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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These phrases begin with a 3-letter palindromic trigram and end with a different 3-letter palindromic trigram: ANACLASTIC GLASSES, BUBBLE SCHEME, ENERGY CRISIS, GIGOT SLEEVE (Web2), IRISH LINEN, MUMMY CASES, PUPPET DRAMA, RARE GASES, SYSTEMATIC PHONEME, TITLE PIECE The phrase BABY BATTERER (cpf), in addition to beginning with BAB and ending with RER, encompasses the palindromic sequence ABYBA and the tautonymic ending ERER.

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