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Empty portion of a bottle
Answer for the clue "Empty portion of a bottle ", 6 letters:
ullage
Alternative clues for the word ullage
- Amount by which a cask falls short of being full
- Amount of liquid lost in shipping
- The amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full
- Unfilled part of a wine container
- Result of liquid loss in a cask
- To capacity, lid off, time for the remaining liquid
- Liquid amount lost in storage
Word definitions for ullage in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ullage \Ul"lage\ (?; 48), n. [OF. eullage, ovillage, the filling up of a cask, fr. ouillier, oillier, euillier, to fill a wine cask; properly, to add oil to prevent evaporation, as to a flask that is nearly full, fr. OF. oile oil. See Oil .] (Com.) The ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"amount by which a cask or bottle falls short of being full," late 15c., from Anglo-French ulliage (early 14c.), Anglo-Latin oliagium (late 13c.), Old French ouillage , from ouiller "to fill up (a barrel) to the bung," literally "to fill to the eye," from ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ullage (from the French ouillage ) is a winemaking term that has several meanings but most commonly refers to the headspace of air between wine and the top of the container holding the wine. It can also refer to the process of evaporation that creates the ...
Usage examples of ullage.
Ullage: small rockets firing around the base of the stack, settling the propellants before the main burn.