message in a bottle

English

Noun

message in a bottle (plural messages in a bottle or messages in bottles)

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

Translations

message put in an empty bottle and set adrift on the ocean

Danish: flaskepost (da) c
Finnish: pulloposti (fi)
French: bouteille à la mer (fr) f
German: Flaschenpost (de) f

Icelandic: flöskuskeyti (is) n
Japanese: ボトルメール
Swedish: flaskpost (sv) c

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