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noun

Bottleholder n.

One who attends a pugilist in a prize fight; so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge.

One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer. (Colloq.) "Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottleholder of oppressed states."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bottleholder" Quotes from Famous Books

... are true, he would be in his grave before the month was out. Happily no man does hear these things; and if he did, they would only provoke inextinguishable wrath or inextinguishable laughter. A man receives the shocks of life on the buffer of his vanity. Vanity acts as his second and bottleholder in the world's prize-ring, and it fights him well, bringing him smilingly up to time after the fiercest knock-down blows. Vanity is to a man what the oily secretion is to a bird, with which it sleeks and adjusts the plumage ...

— Dreamthorp - A Book of Essays Written in the Country • Alexander Smith