A leather jug or bottle for liquor; a blackjack. Probably from some resemblance to the early cannons. Obsolete exc. Historical.

(See quots.)

A bottle, usually of glass, of spheroidal or bulbous shape, with a long narrow neck; applied esp. to the bottles of this form, protected by a…

A thick glass bottle with a long neck and sloping shoulders and secured with a cork, used for champagne.

Chiefly Scottish = magnum, n.1 1a. Obsolete.

A bottle for wine, spirits, etc., twice the standard size and now usually containing 1½ litres (formerly two quarts); the quantity of liquor held by…

A large bowl or goblet; a very large wine-bottle.

A large bottle for wine or spirits; (now) spec. a bottle of certain kinds of prestige wine, esp. champagne, usually containing 4.5 litres (the…

An article of special size or quality. Cf. sense A. 9, compounds. †(a) A large decanter (obsolete); (b) (in later use) a large bottle for wine or…

attributive, as in hock-bottle n., hock-glass a bottle, or wine glass, made of coloured glass, used for hock or other white wine. hock-cup n.

An extremely large wine bottle, used esp. for champagne and usually equivalent to twenty ordinary bottles or 15–16 litres. Also in figurative…

a miniature bottle for spirits or other alcoholic drink.

A very large wine-bottle (see quots.).

A very large wine bottle, usually holding as much as eight ordinary wine bottles.

A large size of wine-bottle. Cf. Balthazar, n., jeroboam, n., rehoboam, n. 1.

A very small bottle of spirits or other alcoholic drink.