hot-water bottle
Britishnoun
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Pebbles has a vet physio and, when I meet her, she is lying down on a hot-water bottle receiving a massage.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2019
As a native of Ireland, I, and all of us, were very familiar growing up with the hot-water bottle.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2018
“It was so cold that Peter put a hot-water bottle on his belly and another one on his back, and my mother wore her fur coat.”
From Architectural Digest ● Aug. 4, 2015
Now, Nora wears clogs and sleeps with a fake-fur-covered hot-water bottle.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2013
Jon carefully wrapped the warm eggs in bubble plastic and lowered them onto a hot-water bottle in his backpack.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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