Winchester
Winchester bottle

All I heard is that he tripped holding a half-gallon Winchester bottle.

A Boston round bottle, or Winchester bottle, is a strong and heavy bottle commonly used in the drug and chemical industries.

The dispensary was an important place in the days before penicillin and the sulphonamides Rows of gleaming Winchester bottles lined the white walls from floor to ceiling.

His eyes swelled in their sockets in horror as he watched the blue bucket rotate in mid-air above his head, saw the lid drop off and the amber half-gallon Winchester bottle inside tumble out, head first, down towards him.

He placed the container on a white speckled work top, unscrewed the lid and set it down; then lifted out an amber half-gallon Winchester bottle that was covered in a protective film, and set that down on the work top, using all the care and respect that the handling of corrosive and toxic substances required.