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English
Etymology
From wine bottle + -ful.
Noun
wine-bottleful (plural wine-bottlefuls)
- As much as a wine bottle will hold.
1897 September 27, Brinsley Nicholson, “Of Agrimonia in Tænia and in Scorbutus”, in The Medical Times and Gazette. A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News, volume II, number 1526, London: J. & A. Churchill, , section II (Agrimonia in Scorbutus), page 367:Having requisitioned for lime-juice, about a dozen or two of wine-bottlefuls were received, with the reply that more could not be spared, as it was required by the Navy.
1994 March 24, “How to make infused oils”, in Daily Press, 99th year, number 83, Newport News-Hampton, Va., page E5:With a few clean glass bottles, pure olive, safflower or canola oil, herbs, dry spices and even vegetables, you can make a wine-bottleful for a dollar or two.
2002, Richard Trillo, The Rough Guide to Kenya, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 375:The art of beekeeping is a Kamba speciality but local custom varies – the honey often has a smokey taste after the bees have been smoked out when the keepers collect it. Bottom price is about Ksh120 for a wine-bottleful.