Bottle, 1) a small vessel to put liquor in: Tp. II, 2, 77. Tp. II, 2, 77 Tp. II, 2, 77 Tp. II, 2, 77 Tp. II, 2, 77 Tp. II, 2, 77 Tp. II, 2, 77 III, 2, 73. III, 2, 73 IV, 208. IV, 208 Wiv. II, 2, 319. Meas. III, 2, 182. As III, 2, 211. H4A IV, 2, 2. H4A IV, 2, 2 H4B I, 2, 237. H5 III, 6, 82. H6C II, 5, 48 “(leather b.).” Oth. II, 3, 152 “(a twiggen b.). hang me in a b. like a cat and shoot at me,” Ado I, 1, 259 ("It appears that cats were enclosed, with a quantity of soot, in wooden bottles suspended on a line, and that he who could beat out the bottom of the bottle as he ran under it, and yet escape its contents, was the hero of the sport." Dyce). -- Used as a masculine: Tp. II, 2, 180.
2) b. of hay == truss of hay: Mids. IV, 1, 37.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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