embottle

English

Etymology

em- + bottle

Verb

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, Cyder, London: J. Tonson:
      Here might you see
      Barons, and Peasants on th'embottled Field

References

  • embottle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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