Bolthead

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A round-bottomed flask with a long neck (used especially for distillation)
  • n. The head of a bolt.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver.
  • n. The head of a bolt.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A long straight-necked glass vessel for chemical distillations. Also called matrass and receiver.
  • Word Usage
    "The fabric lay as smoothly as though it were her own skin; not so much as a bolthead showed to interfere with her streamlining."
    Variant
    matrass