Island (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Island

He drank out of the bottle till he saw the island; the island is the rising bottom of a wine bottle, which appears like an island in the centre, before the bottle is quite empty.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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