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Etymology

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After its inventor, Peter Woulfe, an Irish born chemist.

Noun

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Woulfe bottle (plural Woulfe bottles)

  1. (chemistry) A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Woulfe bottle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)