Obs. Forms: 1 botl, 2–3 buttle, (Orm.) bottl, 4– bottle. [OE. botl, corresp. to OS. bodl, OFris. bodel, ON. ból (:—boðl):—OTeut. *boþlo-, from bu-, bo- ‘dwell,’ with instrumental suffix -þlo = -þro (Gr. -τλο-, -τρο-). Cf. BOLD sb.1] A dwelling, habitation, building.

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c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., St. Matt. xxvi. 3. Ða wæron ʓesanmode þa ealdras þæra sacerda … to þæra sacerda botle.

2

c. 1105.  Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 552. Palatium, kinelic botl.

3

a. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 185. Elch bilefful man þe is þider iboden shal finden þare his buttle.

4

c. 1200.  Ormin, 2788. Þe laffdiȝ Marȝe comm Till Zacariȝess bottle.

5

  [In place-names, as Harbottle, Newbottle, Morbattle.]

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