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hot-water bottle

British  

noun

  1. a receptacle, now usually made of rubber, designed to be filled with hot water, used for warming a bed or parts of the body

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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

Each time, I tell them the same thing: Get a hot-water bottle.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2018

By the time the hot-water bottle was placed on it, about an hour in, I was surely at an 8.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 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

Sarah put him on the couch with a hot-water bottle, where he took two aspirins and fell asleep.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson