nursing bottle

noun

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

nursing bottle

noun

1. See feeding bottle
   another term (esp US) for feeding bottle

Word History and Origins

Origin of nursing bottle¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

I slipped out and ran to the hospital for a nursing bottle and some milk, that Blant might feed the poor little starving babe.

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To this his wife remarked, "Fiddlesticks," and began to feed Pershing from a nursing bottle.

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The object of which we give a representation in Fig. 198, often erroneously classed as a lamp, is a nursing bottle, biberon.

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She had to get a baby's nursing-bottle to raise the lamb with, and it is just too funny to see her feed it.

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I believe the very nursing-bottle leaned heavily against Letty when she lay on her infant pillow.

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