单词 | water bottle |
释义 | water bottlen. 1. a. A bottle or flask used to carry drinking water, esp. when travelling, often made of glass or (in later use) plastic. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > carrying flask > for water water bottle1578 1578 W. Hunnis Hyue Full of Hunnye Gen. xxi. 15 So Abraham rose earely vp, and did him ready make, And eke prepar'de for Ismael and this pore Hagars sake, Breade, and wyth water Bottel filde and to her gaue it there. 1710 tr. P. Bayle Hist. & Crit. Dict. III. 1966/2 (note) He..took a long Vest..to which he fastened a Water Bottle; instead of a Lance, he took a Plain Staff, walking with a wooden Shoe on one Foot. 1838 C. G. Addison Damascus & Palmyra I. p. xiii The English traveller, in pursuing his journey over the wilderness to Palmyra, still has his water-bottle slung to his saddle-bow. 1898 Daily News 8 Mar, 3/2 [The soldiers] will have to carry nothing but their rifles—not even their water bottles. 1909 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 221/2 An old Arab reservoir from whose scummed and stagnant waters the third class passengers push to fill their water bottles. 1954 J. Corbett Temple Tiger 114 In a nearby tree Mac very gallantly put up a machan for me while I smoked and emptied his water bottle—the shade temperature was about 110 degrees. 1988 A. Ghosh Shadow Lines (1989) 200 There it was, our large blue schoolbus... In my impatience, I ran towards it, waving my water bottle. 2005 Runner's World Oct. 31/1 Should you accept the water bottle held out to you halfway through a 5K or should you just keep on running. b. A bottle for holding drinking water on a table for use at meals, in a bedroom, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > bottle > for water in room or at table water bottle1721 carafe1786 1721 True Inventory Sir R. Chaplin (South-Sea Company) 4 One Brass Plate Ring, one Knife Basket, two Plate Baskets, one Knife-tray, one Glass-tray, three Water Bottles, three Decanters. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 41 The washing-stand [was] soapless, the ewer and water-bottle empty. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 101 If he can get it [sc. the newspaper] while he is at dinner, he appears to eat it with much greater zest; balancing it against the water-bottle. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. v. 127 He held out the tiny glass, and I half filled it from the water bottle on the wash-stand. 1860 H. Cullwick Diaries (1984) 105 Wash'd the water bottles & lamp glasses. 1914 Catholic World Mar. 806 As she turned, her foot struck something on the floor—an empty water-bottle lying by a broken glass. 1999 New Yorker 29 Nov. 21/1 But with its white plaster walls, tin ceiling, metal tables..white plates, and rubber-stoppered glass water bottles on each table, the place would be perfect for a romantic scene in a nineteen-forties movie. 2. A vessel of leather or skin used, esp. by a water carrier, to transport water for domestic use. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > flask, flagon, or bottle > [noun] > leather > for water > for carrying water water bulgec1225 water-bougec1450 water bodge1541 water bougeta1566 water bottle1591 water budget1591 water bag1638 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Zanges, zagues Water bottle, Lagena, vterculus. 1840 A. Farre in A. Tweedie Syst. Pract. Med. V. 251 The water-carriers in India frequently suffer from this parasite, which more particularly infests the skin of the back at the part which is kept continually wetted by the leathern water-bottle being frequently in contact with it. 1879 St. Nicholas Mar. 325/1 The neck of the skin, which is usually brought under the arm, and compressed by the hand, serves as the mouthpiece of this curious but very useful water-bottle. 1914 Daily News 9 Mar. 6 A little tip-tapping burros..with panniers holding water-bottles, came round to the doors [in Valparaiso]. 2005 N. Jubber Prester Quest xvi. 424 Oh, aren't those donkeys sweet—don't you just love the animal-skin water bottles on their backs? 3. A bottle for holding water for purposes other than drinking. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > flask, flagon, or bottle > [noun] > bottle > filled with water water bottle1766 1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy I. xiii. 224 He places them [sc. the cut carnations] in water-bottles,..and they will continue fresh and unfaded, the best part of a month. 1834 W. H. B. Webster Narr. Voy. to S. Atlantic Ocean I. i. 27 During the calms we frequently sent down the sounding lead to a depth of four hundred fathoms, with Sykes's thermometer and Dr. Marcet's iron water-bottle attached to it. 1877 Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1876–7 12 114 The water-bottle was connected with its neighbors by two lengths of stout rubber hose so that the water could be shaken up with the gas without disturbing the rest of the apparatus. 1931 J. Drury Dining in Chicago 152 Narghile, (or hooka, or ‘hubble-bubble’ pipe, or Oriental water-bottle pipe—which ever you want to call it). 1998 Art Room Catal. Christmas 18/2 (caption) Ingeniously designed, the watercolour box contains everything else you'll need: 12 half pans of colour, a brush, sponge, water bottle and holder, and three mixing areas. 4. = hot-water bottle n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for warming bed bedpan1572 warming-pan1574 froe1594 hot-water bottle1636 damsel1728 nun1728 water bottle1771 hot bottle1836 bottle1857 pig1869 bed-bottle1907 bed-warmer1931 hotty1947 1771 G. White Jrnl. 11 Jan. (1970) iv. 35 Water bottles freeze in chambers. 1840 J. Romilly Diary 31 Dec. in Cambr. Diary (1967) 207 Lodge burnt his leg with a water bottle & laid up. 1891 Pick-me-up 28 Mar. 426/1 Samuel groaned and writhed in bed, while Maria, putting on her dressing-gown, went downstairs and filled the stone water-bottle with hot water. 1905 S. J. Weyman Starvecrow Farm xxv. 230 That was not the day of bedroom fires, or rubber water-bottles. 1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 334 Dilsey reached the top of the stairs and took the water bottle. ‘I'll fix hit in a minute... I gwine build de fire myself.’ 1990 Paris Rev. Fall 173 I float on wine while cold creeps up my feet. Despite a water bottle, I can't sleep. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1578 |
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