U.S. A thick strong bottle made of green or black glass, ‘the ordinary black glass porter bottle’ (Bartlett, Dict. Amer., 1860).
1805. Naval Chron., XIV. 65. The following article was found in a junk-bottle.
1809. W. Irving, Knickerb., VII. vii. (1820), 490. Stopping to take a lusty dinner, and bracing to his side his junk-bottle, well charged with heart-inspiring Hollands.
1881. E. H. Elwell, in Collect. Maine Hist. Soc., IX. 217. Sawyer drank the last drop of rum from his junk bottle.
