embottle

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

em- +‎ bottle

Verb[edit]

embottle (third-person singular simple present embottles, present participle embottling, simple past and past participle embottled)

  1. (transitive, dated) To bottle; to place in a bottle.
    • 1670, Thomas Brooks, London's Lamentations:
      What did you teach these Cubs the World to burn,
      Or to embottle London in its Urn ?
    • 1708, [John Philips], “(please specify the page)”, in Cyder. [], London: [] J[acob] Tonson, [], →OCLC:
      Here might you see
      Barons, and Peasants on th'embottled Field

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