A message written on a scrap of paper, rolled-up and put in an empty bottle and set adrift on the ocean; traditionally, a method used by castaways to advertise their distress to the outside world.

A device used to remove the cap from a bottle / A device used to remove the cork from a bottle

(baseball) The second part of the ninth and final inning; the end of the game. / (idiomatic) By extension, any last chance or final opportunity.

Having lower parts made of or covered by copper (especially of a ship or cookware). / (Britain, idiomatic) Thoroughly reliable; secure

(transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something / To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily. / To repair or mend clumsily.

An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work. / A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

(obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling. / A case or outbreak of boils or sores.

The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle. / (figuratively) In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.

(transitive) To slow by causing a bottleneck. / (intransitive) To form a bottleneck.

A young boy employed to make the base of a saggar from a lump of fireclay, knocking it into a metal ring with a wooden mallet.