Meaning of tooth-bottle | Babel Free

Definitions

A small metal bottle often used to contain a small amount of alcohol.

obsolete

Examples

“They filled up their glasses with the red wine from the tooth-bottle and they had other little glasses of brown wine as well.”

“But perhaps the most interesting of these fragments in pale-green metal is the neck from a bottle, in shape and size resembling a washstand 'tooth bottle', but with a flatly everted orifice.”

“The tooth-bottle is at your elbow.”

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