vbl. sb. [f. BOTTLE v.1 + -ING1.] The act of putting into, or keeping in, bottles; fig. keeping under restraint. Often with up.
1594. Plat, Divers Chem. Concl., 14. The bottleling uppe of your best Ale.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 46. You may drink it well after 3 daies Botteling.
1691. Swift, Athen. Soc., Wks. 1755, IV. I. 235. An art as vain as bottling up of winds.
1830. M. Donovan, Dom. Econ., I. 309. The bottling of the cider.
