tooth-bottle

plural tooth-bottles

1. obsoleteA small metal bottle often used to contain a small amount of alcohol.

   The tooth-bottle is at your elbow.

   1938, P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters

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   They filled up their glasses with the red wine from the tooth-bottle and they had other little glasses of brown wine as well.

   1930, Life and Letters and the London Mercury - Volume 4, page 367

   But perhaps the most interesting of these fragments in pale-green metal is the neck from a bottle, in shape and size resembling a washstand 'tooth bottle', but with a flatly everted orifice.

   1935, William Arnold Thorpe, English Glass, page 83