"Glass bottle" (vb)

[Douglas G. Wilson]

If "glass bottle" [verb] is in use one might expect to find more-or-less
equivalent "bottle" [verb] either as the basic version or by abbreviation.

Google for <<"bottled him">> shows a number of instances where "bottle"
appears to mean "strike with a bottle", i.e., "use a bottle as a club or
blunt weapon" (not "use a broken bottle as a cutting weapon"). There are
also some examples where "bottle" [v.t.] would seem to mean "throw bottles at".

I would suppose that "glass-bottle" [v.t.] must at least sometimes have the
same meaning. Note that almost all bottles which are readily available and
suitable for use as weapons are glass bottles.

The expression seems to be more popular in the UK, maybe.

-- Doug Wilson