Rebottling

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The process of transferring a liquid, especially wine or another beverage, from one container or bottle into another for storage, preservation, or sale
2. The act of pouring liquid from existing bottles into new or different bottles, often to improve quality, repackage, or prepare for distribution
3. The procedure involving moving fluids from original packaging into fresh bottles to maintain freshness, comply with standards, or rebrand products

Etymology: "Rebottling" is simply the present participle of "rebottle," built from the prefix "re-", meaning again, and "bottle," a word that came into English from Old French "bouteille" and ultimately from medieval Latin "buticula," a small flask. Put together, the verb describes filling a container again, which is exactly what winemakers and merchants do when they move liquid from one vessel to another. The pattern is one of the most productive in English. Attaching "re-" to a noun turns it into a verb meaning to do the thing again, as in "repot," "rebrand," or "refill." "Rebottle" follows the same logic, so its meaning can be worked out from its parts without any special history behind it.

Synonyms: refilling, repackaging, recontainerizing, recanning, repacking