embottle
English edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
embottle (third-person singular simple present embottles, present participle embottling, simple past and past participle embottled)
- (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], “(please specify the page)”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- Here might you see
Barons, and Peasants on th'embottled Field
References edit
- “embottle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.