bottle glass

American  

noun

1. glass of a deep green or amber color.

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bottle glass British  

noun

1. glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium

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Other Word Forms

• bottle-glass adjective

Etymology

Origin of bottle glass

First recorded in 1620–30

Example Sentences

Even bottle glass was valuable for shaping arrowheads.

From National Geographic • Aug. 7, 2015

"We found bottle glass -- possibly from wine or spirit bottles -- copper nails, tent canvas, twine, rope ... we found some pieces of clay tobacco smoking pipes," said Jonathan Moore of Parks Canada.

From Scientific American • Sep. 2, 2011

Two of its most important divisions are bottle glass and flat glass.

From Time Magazine Archive

Connoisseurs of Goff will also miss the grace notes of his other buildings: no orange carpet on the roof, no replicas of Zen sand gardens done in furnace slag and fused bottle glass.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were circles of charcoal, tire tracks off side roads and, since the men came back from the war, broken bottle glass all over the reservation.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko