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Junk
·noun Hard salted beef supplied to ships.
II. Junk ·noun Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, ·e...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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junk
The Chinese junk is the largest vessel built by that nation, and at one period exceeding in tonnage ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bottle
·noun A bundle, ·esp. of hay.
II. Bottle ·noun Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bottle
A vessel made of skins for holding wine (Josh. 9:4. 13; 1 Sam. 16:20; Matt. 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Bottle
The Arabs keep their water, milk and other liquids in leathern bottles. These are made of goatskins....
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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salt-junk
Navy salt beef. (See junk.)
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bottle green
·- A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bottle-nose
·noun The <<Puffin>>.
II. Bottle-nose ·noun A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, a...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bottle-nosed
·adj Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Woulfe bottle
·noun A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks;
— so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bottle Lane
See Botolph's Lane.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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bottle-headed
Void of wit.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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phos bottle
A. bottle of phosphorus: used by housebreakers to light their lanthorns. Ding the phos; throw away t...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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soldier's bottle
A large one.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bottle-brush
n.
name given to various speciesof Callistemon and Melaleuca, N.O. Myrtaceae; the Purple Bottle-bru...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bottle-gourd
n.
an Australian plant, Lagenaria vulgaris, Ser., N.O. Cucurbitaceae.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bottle-swallow
n.
a popular name for the bird Lagenoplastis ariel, otherwise called the FairyMartin. See Martin. T...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bottle-tree
n. an Australian tree, variousspecies of Sterculia, i.q. Kurrajong (q.v.). Sonamed from its appearan...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bottle-bump
The bittern, so called on our east coast.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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bottle-charts
Those on which the set of surface currents are exhibited, derived from papers found in bottles which...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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bottle-nose
, or bottle-nosed whale
A name applied to several of the smaller cetaceans of the northern seas, m...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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empty bottle
See marine officer.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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sea-bottle
The pod or vesicle of some species of sea-wrack or Fucus gigantea of Cape Horn and the Straits of Ma...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bottle Alley, Bottle Yard, Bishopsgate
See Brittania Place.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Bottle-neck frame
·add. ·- An inswept frame.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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bawdy-house bottle
A very small bottle; short measure being among the many means used by the keepers of those houses, t...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bottle-nosed whale
See bottle-nose
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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work up junk, to
To draw yarns from old cables, &c., and therewith to make foxes, points, gaskets, sinnet, or spun-ya...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Cock and Bottle Court
East out of Aldersgate Street, in Aldersgate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 122).
Not name...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.