a hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.-the contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.-fig.: intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.-to put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.-a bundle, esp. of hay.