The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bottle \Bot"tle\, n. [OE. bote, botelle, OF. botel, bouteille, F. bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. Butt a cask.]
A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
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Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.
Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound.
Bottle ale, bottled ale. [Obs.]
--Shak.Bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.
Bottle fish (Zo["o]l.), a kind of deep-sea eel ( Saccopharynx ampullaceus), remarkable for its baglike gullet, which enables it to swallow fishes two or three times its won size.
Bottle flower. (Bot.) Same as Bluebottle.
Bottle glass, a coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles.
--Ure.Bottle gourd (Bot.), the common gourd or calabash ( Lagenaria Vulgaris), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc.
Bottle grass (Bot.), a nutritious fodder grass ( Setaria glauca and Setaria viridis); -- called also foxtail, and green foxtail.
Bottle tit (Zo["o]l.), the European long-tailed titmouse; -- so called from the shape of its nest.
Bottle tree (Bot.), an Australian tree ( Sterculia rupestris), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk.
Feeding bottle, Nursing bottle, a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in feeding infants.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A brush, having bristles that radiate from a central stem, used for cleaning bottles. 2 Any of several plants having a similar appearance, especially (taxlink Anthephora genus noshow=1) or (taxlink Callistemon genus noshow=1). n. 1 A brush, having bristles that radiate from a central stem, used for cleaning bottles. 2 Any of several plants having a similar appearance, especially (taxlink Anthephora genus noshow=1) or (taxlink Callistemon genus noshow=1).
Usage examples of "bottle brush".
A little pink mouth hissed defiance as the tiny black kitten inside scrambled to the back of the hat, whipping its minute bottle brush of a tail for balance.
They didn't have leaves, not that she could see, but sort of bottle brush tufts of a not-quite green shade.