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tooth-bottles

tooth-bottles is the plural of tooth-bottle.

Meaning of tooth-bottle

Noun

tooth-bottle (plural tooth-bottles)

  1. (obsolete) A small metal bottle often used to contain a small amount of alcohol.
    • They filled up their glasses with the red wine from the tooth-bottle and they had other little glasses of brown wine as well.1930, Life and Letters and the London Mercury - Volume 4, page 367

Questions about tooth-bottles

What is tooth-bottles the plural of?
Tooth-bottles is the plural of tooth-bottle.

Words near tooth-bottles in the dictionary

  1. tooth, fang, and claw
  2. tooth-and-nail
  3. tooth-billed pigeon
  4. tooth-billed pigeons
  5. tooth-bottle
  6. tooth-bottles
  7. tooth-comb
  8. tooth-combed
  9. tooth-combing
  10. tooth-combs
  11. tooth-drawer

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