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bottling

noun

bot·​tling ˈbä-tᵊl-iŋ How to pronounce bottling (audio)
ˈbät-liŋ
: a beverage and especially a wine that is bottled at a particular time

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Coca-Cola’s Indian bottling unit is reportedly weighing a billion-dollar float next year. Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025 Booker’s was founded by its namesake, the late master distiller Booker Noe, back in 1988 as a special bottling for his friends and family. Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2025 The program also teaches practical skills, bottling and filtering their own honey and creating candles — from the beeswax — that is sold in the school bookstore and online. Kansas City Star, 14 Nov. 2025 The Dossins — who owned Dossin Food Products, a company that was started by Ernest Dossin in 1898, and who later acquired the regional bottling and distribution franchise for Pepsi-Cola — donated the money to build a museum building. Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 4 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bottling

Word History

First Known Use

1860, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bottling was in 1860

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“Bottling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bottling. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.

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