Careful Words

bottle (n.)

bottle (v.)

Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle?

He was all for love, and a little for the bottle.

Charles Dibdin (1745-1814): Captain Wattle and Miss Roe.

Needle in a bottle of hay.

Field (—— -1641): A Woman's a Weathercock. (Reprint, 1612, p. 20.)