BOTTLE

I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English botel, from Old French botele, from Medieval Latin butticula, diminutive of Late Latin buttis cask Date: 14th century 1. a rigid or semirigid container typically of glass or plastic having a comparatively narrow neck or mouth and usually no handle, a usually ~-shaped container made of skin for storing a liquid, the quantity held by a ~, 3. intoxicating drink ; the practice of drinking , liquid food (as milk) used in place of mother's milk, mettle , courage , ~ful noun II. transitive verb (~d; bottling) Date: 1594 1. to confine as if in a ~ ; restrain , to put or keep in a position or situation that makes free activity, progress, or escape difficult or impossible, to put into or as if into a ~ , ~r noun