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Hot-water bottle

noun

A stoppered receptacle (usually made of rubber) that is to be filled with hot water and used for warming a bed or parts of the body. Synonym: hot-water bag.

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"Hot-water bottle" Quotes from Famous Books

... darkening nursery. Rupert, clasping his hot-water bottle raptly, murmured dreamily as he merged into the Great Unknown, the crystallisation of the subconscious influence which had ...

— Terribly Intimate Portraits • Noel Coward

... enjoy things,' she went on, 'I know it. Eating, for instance, the sunshine, my hot-water bottle at night. Other people are always thinking of unpleasant things. It makes a difference,' she added, as she got up ...

— More Trivia • Logan Pearsall Smith

... time with him, and then he came down and told Olivia that she had better fill a hot-water bottle ...

— Doctor Luttrell's First Patient • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... the water, is!..." sighed Fanny, And a voice through the paper wall, catching the shivering whisper, exclaimed: "Use your hot-water bottle!" ...

— The Happy Foreigner • Enid Bagnold

Words linked to "Hot-water bottle" : receptacle