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Water bottle. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Water bottle 1.  A vessel of leather or skin used in certain countries, esp. by water-bearers or water-carriers, to convey water for domestic use.

1 1591.  Percivall, Sp. Dict., Zanges, zagues, water bottle, Lagena, vterculus.

2 1914.  Daily News, 9 March, 6. A little tip-tapping burros … with panniers holding water-bottles, came round to the doors [in Valparaiso].

3   2.  A bottle to hold drinking water. a. One placed on the table for use at meals or in a bedroom.

4 1825.  T. Hook, Sayings, Ser. II. Passion & Princ., vi. The washing-stand [was] soapless, the ewer and water-bottle empty.

5 1835.  Dickens, Sk. Boz, Thoughts about People. If he can get it [the newspaper] while he is at dinner, he eats with much greater zest; balancing it against the water-bottle.

6 1847.  C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, xx. He held out the tiny glass, and I half filled it from the water bottle on the wash-stand.

7   b.  A kind of flask used by soldiers and travellers.

8 1889.  Rider Haggard, Allan’s Wife, vi. By an afterthought, we filled our water-bottles.

9 1898.  Daily News, 8 March, 3/2. [The soldiers] will have to carry nothing but their rifles—not even their water bottles.

10   3.  nonce-use. A bottle filled with water.

11 1766.  Smollett, Trav., xiii. I. 224. He places them [the cut carnations] in water-bottles,… and they will continue fresh and unfaded, the best part of a month.

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