winebottle

plural winebottles

1. alternativeattributiveoftenrareAlternative form of wine bottle.

   I am a chrysanthemum / stuck in a winebottle / my edges red / with appetite […]

   1968, Pyramid, volumes 1–5, page 24

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   1896[:] Born December 27 in Nackenheim on the Rhine, the second of two sons. Father is owner of a winebottle cap factory.

   1977, Helen Swediuk-Cheyne, “Introduction: Biographical Notes”, in Die Uhr schlägt eins: Ein historisches Drama aus der Gegenwart by Carl Zuckmayer, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 19

   A warm green, I think that is the earliest image in my memory: the green of a tiled stove whose upper rim supposedly was ringed by the relief design of a gypsy camp. But I only know that because my mother told me. However I rack my brain, it will not bring this picture back to me. But I kept the green, a warm winebottle green with a dull shine.

   1997, Franz Fühmann, “The Jew Car”, in Therese Hörnigk, Alexander Stephan, editors, The New Sufferings of Young W. and Other Stories from the German Democratic Republic, New York, NY: The Continuum Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 216

   Suddenly, a faint moan emanated from the cantonment. Distant lungs blowing the neck of a winebottle. ¶ “What's that big weird noise?” demanded Katrinko, all alert interest.

   1999, Bruce Sterling, A Good Old-fashioned Future: Stories, New York, NY: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 242

   Ewan works a solid half-hour and the viced scroll looks barely scratched. He stretches, then, clutching an armful of empty winebottles, he slips outside. The voices are louder next door. He smells citronella and mosquito coils.

   2004, Craig Silvey, Rhubarb, Fremantle Press, →ISBN, page 28