Wine-bottleful

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From wine bottle + -ful.

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