单词 | wooden bottle |
释义 | > as lemmaswooden bottle b. A small wooden keg, esp. one used by farm labourers as a container for drink (frequently in wooden bottle). Now historical.Cf. costrel n.1 ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun] > small firkin1423 cag1452 kinkin1493 tonekin1546 bottle1578 kempkin1580 knaga1585 barrico1607 barrelet1611 barriket1611 keg1632 costrel1709 bareca1773 breaker1834 1578 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 133 Fower woodd bottels, one lether botle. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 240 Hang me in a bottle like a Cat, and shoote at me. View more context for this quotation 1675 W. Dugdale Baronage Eng. I. 142/2 Certain Wooden Bottles..which..were all filled with Gold. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 138. ⁋11 In harvest she rides a-field in the waggon, and is very liberal of her ale from a wooden bottle. 1789 W. H. Marshall Rural Econ. Gloucestershire I. x. 53 To drain a two-gallon bottle without taking it from the lips.., is spoken of as an exploit. 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life vii. 142 Messengers..carry out also to the field wooden ‘bottles’—small barrels holding a gallon or two. 1904 G. Jekyll Old West Surrey ix. 189 R. S.'s bottle was made of a very beautiful piece of oak. 1982 M. B. Quinion Cidermaking 3/2 The daily ration was..served out..in the farm cider house into individual small wooden bottles, made in the same way as casks. < as lemmas |
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