bottle-bump

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• Bump

  ·noun A thump; a heavy blow. II. Bump ·noun The noise made by the bittern. III. Bump ·noun A swell...

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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

• 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

• Bottle

  The Arabs keep their water, milk and other liquids in leathern bottles. These are made of goatskins....

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• butter-bump

  a bittern. S. Called in the North a MIRE-DRUM. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• bitter-bump

  A north-country name for the bittern. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• bump, to

  To bump a boat, is to pull astern of her in another, and insultingly or inimically give her the stem...

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• bump-ashore

  Running stem-on to a beach or bank. A ship bumps by the action of the waves lifting and dropping her...

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• butter-bump

  A name of the bittern in the north. ...

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• Bottle green

  ·- A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. ...

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• Bottle-nose

  ·noun The <<Puffin>>. II. Bottle-nose ·noun A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, a...

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• Bottle-nosed

  ·adj Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end. ...

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• Woulfe bottle

  ·noun A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; — so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, ...

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• Bottle Lane

  See Botolph's Lane. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• bottle-headed

  Void of wit. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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

• soldier's bottle

  A large one. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• junk-bottle

  The ordinary black glass porter-bottle. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bottle-charts

  Those on which the set of surface currents are exhibited, derived from papers found in bottles which...

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• bottle-nose

  , or bottle-nosed whale A name applied to several of the smaller cetaceans of the northern seas, m...

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• empty bottle

  See marine officer. ...

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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...

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• Bottle Alley, Bottle Yard, Bishopsgate

  See Brittania Place. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Bottle-neck frame

  ·add. ·- An inswept frame. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• 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

• bottle-nosed whale

  See bottle-nose ...

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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.