Crossword clues for hot-water bottle
hot-water bottle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hot-water bottle
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alternatively, she could lie on her stomach with a hot wet towel or a hot-water bottle placed on her buttocks.
▪ Helen made tea and filled a hot-water bottle for Theresa.
▪ More than once a hot-water bottle filled with cider burst in the back of a closet, for a chambermaid to find.
▪ My daughter feels as soft as a marshmallow, as warm as a hot-water bottle.
▪ The rubber hot-water bottle was a very modern idea at the time the house was built.
▪ There was nothing more to do tonight except to fill her hot-water bottle.
▪ When Penry arrived with the promised drink he also brought a hot-water bottle.
WordNet
hot-water bottle
n. a stoppered receptacle (usually made of rubber) that is to be filled with hot water and used for warming a bed or parts of the body [syn: hot-water bag]
Usage examples of "hot-water bottle".
He got up and limped downstairs into the kitchen with the idea of refilling his hot-water bottle to ease the stiffness in his knee.
He got up and limped downstairs into the kitchen, with the idea of re-filling his hot-water bottle to ease the stiffness in his knee.
Sometime today, she'd have to buy some warm pyjamas and a hot-water bottle or she wasn't going to make it out of Longnor without a recurrence of the chilblains that had made her childhood a misery.