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botte

British  
/ bɔt /

noun

  1. fencing a thrust or hit

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Geno Auriemma stepping onto the court to spike a water botte, that helped them, too.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2023

In one of the immense labyrinthine cellars is a botte for wine capable of containing five thousand litri.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 by Various

Ha! children, me thinkes my botte remeves, Our tarryinge heare highlye me greves, Over the lande the watter spreades; God doe as he will.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Tevis was strong, and a great fencer; there is a famous botte which he invented, bearing his name; perhaps Walter H. Pollock knows it. 

From Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland

The coachmen of the botte are a feature of Rome, they spot the foreigner at once, and always try to get the better of him.

From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary Alsop King Waddington

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