nursing bottle

noun

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

nursing bottle

noun

1. 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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