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wine-bottleful en · NOUN

Etymology

From wine bottle + -ful.

Meanings

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 1526, London: […] J. & A. Churchill, […], section II (Agrimonia in Scorbutus), page 367:
   • The art of beekeeping is a Kamba speciality but local custom varies – the honey often has a smokey taste after the bees have been smoked out when the keepers collect it. Bottom price is about Ksh120 for a wine-bottleful. 2002, Richard Trillo, The Rough Guide to Kenya, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 375:
   • 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:

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