nursing bottle

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noun

a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.

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Origin of nursing bottle

First recorded in 1860–65

Words nearby nursing bottle

nursery stakes, nurserywoman, nurse's aide, nurse shark, nursing, nursing bottle, nursing father, nursing home, nursing mother, nursing officer, nursling

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How to use nursing bottle in a sentence

Nor are we told that she lost her job at a local nursing home after she tried to register to vote in 1964.
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They made it home, after which he did die, she nursing him to the end.
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Nothing does it quite like deftly decapitating a bottle of bubbly with a gleaming blade.
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“Ovens using gas cylinders were set up to make bread under bridges, and nursing stations appeared, offering medicines,” he writes.
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That means that Champagne is fermented a second time in the bottle when sealed closed, which naturally produces the bubbles.
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One of the little girls in pigtails was holding him, while Miss Anne administered the feeding-bottle.
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An hour later, I heard he was dead: that on his way to his home he had purchased a bottle of laudanum and swallowed the contents!
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He thrust one hand into his gold-coloured skirt, and produced a glass bottle full of some very cheap perfume from Europe.
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He started a guerilla campaign against the obsession with the aid of the brandy bottle.
Uncanny Tales|Various
We too are in sympathy with those miners who are now faced with only one bottle of champagne a day.
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British Dictionary definitions for nursing bottle

nursing bottle

noun

another term (esp US) for feeding bottle

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