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wine-bottleful

wine-bottleful noun: as much as a wine bottle will hold.

Noun

wine-bottleful (plural wine-bottlefuls)

  1. As much as a wine bottle will hold.
    • Having requisitioned for lime-juice, about a dozen or two of wine-bottlefuls were received, with the reply that more could not be spared, as it was required by the Navy.1897 September 27, Brinsley Nicholson, “Of Agrimonia in Tænia and in Scorbutus”, in The Medical Times and Gazette. A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News, volume II, number...
    • With a few clean glass bottles, pure olive, safflower or canola oil, herbs, dry spices and even vegetables, you can make a wine-bottleful for a dollar or two.1994 March 24, “How to make infused oils”, in Daily Press, 99th year, number 83, Newport News-Hampton, Va., page E5

Forms of wine-bottleful

pluralwine-bottlefuls
alternative formwine bottleful
alternative formwinebottleful

Origin of wine-bottleful

From wine bottle + -ful.

Questions about wine-bottleful

What does wine-bottleful mean?
Wine-bottleful means as much as a wine bottle will hold.
What part of speech is wine-bottleful?
Wine-bottleful is a noun.
What is the plural of wine-bottleful?
The plural of wine-bottleful is wine-bottlefuls.

Words near wine-bottleful in the dictionary

  1. wine-bibber
  2. wine-bibbers
  3. wine-blue
  4. wine-blues
  5. wine-bottle
  6. wine-bottleful
  7. wine-bottlefuls
  8. wine-bottles
  9. wine-colored
  10. wine-coloured
  11. wine-cup

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