bottle

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to put into bottles

   The company bottled the local spring water.

2. 2
   verb

   to store liquids or gases in containers, often glass or plastic

   We bottled our sodas.

3. 3
   noun

   A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.

   Beer is often sold in bottles.

4. 4
   noun

   The contents of such a container.

   I only drank a bottle of beer.

5. 5
   noun

   A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.

   The baby wants a bottle.

6. 6
   noun

   (originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.

   You don’t have the bottle to do that!

7. 7
   noun

   A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.

   Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.

8. 8
   noun

   Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.

   to drown one’s troubles in the bottle

Etymology

From Middle English bottle, botel, buttle, from Old English botl (“building, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōþl, from Proto-Germanic *budlą, *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (literally “to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Cognate with North Frisian budel, bodel, bol, boel (“dwelling, inheritable property”), Dutch boedel, boel (“inheritance, estate”), Danish bol (“farm”), Icelandic ból (“dwelling, abode, farm, lair”). Related to Old English bytlan (“to build”). More at build.