hot-water bottle

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymshot-water bag

   Broaderreceptacle

Questions about hot-water bottle

What does hot-water bottle mean?

hot-water bottle means "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".

What is another word for hot-water bottle?

Close synonyms include hot-water bag. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hot-water bottle a common word?

hot-water bottle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.