bottle capper
- noun
- Specialized
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tapadora de botellas
- Home brewers often use a handheld bottle capper to seal their beer bottles.
Examples
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Can you show me how to use the bottle capper?
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After filling each bottle, he placed it under the bottle capper to secure the lid tightly.
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The brewery invested in a new bottle capper to speed up their packaging process.
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The bottle capper is essential for this production line.
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To seal the homemade drinks, he used a bottle capper to attach the caps securely.
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She purchased a bottle capper for her brewing hobby to ensure the bottles were sealed tightly.
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With the bottle capper in hand, he easily sealed each bottle after filling them with juice.
Synonyms
A machine that seals bottles with caps
A person or machine that puts lids on containers
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a device or person that seals bottles with caps' is directly derivable from combining 'bottle' (container for liquids) with 'capper' (one who puts on caps); this follows the productive English compound pattern (e.g., 'bottle opener'). Because the compound is compositional and mirrors common cross-linguistic patterns, a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Bottle capper is a very literal name: it is a tool that puts a cap on a bottle. The word capper comes from the idea of 'capping' or 'putting the lid on', so the name means a device used 'to seal bottles'.
