bottlefuln.
/ˈbɒtlfʊl/, U.S. /ˈbɑdəlˌfʊl/ The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle will hold.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > bottle
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1622 in R. Baddeley Boy of Bilson 63 He gaue me a bottlefull of the one of those waters..and willed me now and then to cast some of it ouer my bed.
?a1681 J. Wade Song in Praise Leather Bottel (new ed.) (single sheet) The merry Hay-makers they, when as they are turning their Hay..a good Bottle full then will do them no harm.
1784 W. Griffiths Pract. Treat. Farriery xxii. 65 Clear off a quart bottleful for use.
1819 Hull Packet 12 Oct. To every bottleful of strong rue water, add two ounces of prepared chalk, and two ounces of laudanum.
1856 G. Gore et al. in Orr's Circle Sci.: Pract. Chem. 507 The presence of carbonic acid may be known by collecting a bottleful of the gas.
1892 Hearth & Home 4 Aug. 13/2 From a spring not far off countless bottlefuls of water were carried.
1907 New Eng. Mag. May 351/2 He gave me a whole bottleful of pills.
1926 Illustr. London News Christmas No. 10/2 She went..from farm to farm, praying for a pint, for half a pint, for a bottleful.
2007 E. Hickey Wayward Muse (2008) xxx. 279 They still had wine with dinner, which Rossetti downed by the bottleful.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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