Wine-bottleful
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 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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