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hot-water bottle

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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

"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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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

“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

More cold compresses were delivered, and a hot-water bottle, and a headache lozenge.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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