bottle

     

A bottle is a container with a neck that is narrower than the boy and a "mouth." Bottles are often made of glass, clay, plastic or other impervious materials, and typically used to store liquids such as water, milk, soft drinks, beer, wine, blood, cooking oil, medicine, shampoo, ink. A device applied in the bottling line to seal the mouth of a bottle is termed a bottle cap (external), or stopper (internal). A bottle can also be sealed using induction sealing.

Trivia about bottle

  • The mast of a model ship must fold down if it is to be inserted into one of these
  • Poe's "MS. Found in" one of these won a short story contest in 1833
  • Charles Dibdin rhymed, "Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? He was all for love and a little for" this (hic)