Bottle-imp
Cartesian diver.
Historical Examples
The Life of Francis Thompson Everard Meynell
Great Porter Square, v. 1 Benjamin Leopold Farjeon
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a narrow entrance or passageway. a place or stage in a process at which progress is impeded. Also called slide guitar. a method of guitar playing that produces a gliding sound by pressing a metal bar or glass tube against the strings. to hamper or confine by or as if by a bottleneck. to become […]
- Bottlenose
bottle-nosed dolphin. bottle-nosed whale. Historical Examples British Sea Birds Charles Dixon Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom Samuel Griswold Goodrich
- Bottle-nosed-dolphin
any of several dolphins of the genus Tursiops, common in North Atlantic and Mediterranean waters, having a rounded forehead and well-defined beak. Historical Examples Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung Victor Appleton
- Bottle-nosed-whale
any of various beaked whales of the family Hyperoodontidae, characterized by a bulbous forehead, especially Hyperoodon ampullatus of the North Atlantic.
- Bottle-out
verb (intransitive, adverb) (Brit, slang) to lose one’s nerve Historical Examples The Frontier Boys in the Sierras Wyn Roosevelt That Boy Of Norcott’s Charles James Lever T. Tembarom Frances Hodgson Burnett The Rising of the Court Henry Lawson The Social Gangster Arthur B. Reeve Little Novels Wilkie Collins The Story of an African Farm (AKA […]