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bottled

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bot·tle  (btl)
n.
1. A receptacle having a narrow neck, usually no handles, and a mouth that can be plugged, corked, or capped.
2. The quantity that a bottle holds.
3. A receptacle filled with milk or formula that is fed, as to babies, in place of breast milk.
4. Informal
a. Intoxicating liquor: Don't take to the bottle.
b. The practice of drinking large quantities of intoxicating liquor: Her problem is the bottle.
tr.v. bot·tled, bot·tling, bot·tles
1. To place in a bottle.
2. To hold in; restrain: bottled up my emotions.

[Middle English botel, from Old French botele, from Medieval Latin butticula, diminutive of Late Latin buttis, cask.]

bottler n.

bottled, bottle gas
n
butane or propane gas liquefied under pressure in portable containers and used in camping stoves, blowtorches, etc
Translations
bottled [ˈbɒtld] ADJ bottled beercerveza f de botella
bottled gasgas m de bombona
bottled wateragua f embotellada
bottled
adj winein Flaschen (abgefüllt); gasin Flaschen; beerFlaschen-; fruiteingemacht


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-- That chap, I was a saying, though he has all his faculties about him, somewheres or another, bottled up and corked down, has no more imagination than Barnaby has.
A sigh which none could have heard unmoved, and which was sufficient at once to have swept off a dozen beaus; so soft, so sweet, so tender, that the insinuating air must have found its subtle way to the heart of our heroe, had it not luckily been driven from his ears by the coarse bubbling of some bottled ale, which at that time he was pouring forth.
Transported to the Indies, his live blood would not spoil like bottled ale.
 
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