wine cooler

a bucket for holding ice to chill a bottle of wine.

a drink made of wine, fruit juice, carbonated water, and sometimes other flavorings.

Origin of wine cooler

First recorded in 1805–15

The psykter, or wine-cooler, was a double-walled vessel of the amphora type, rotund in shape.

The Ceramic Art |Jennie J. Young
Obtaining a wine-cooler, he had it filled with hot water and, placing the bottle of champagne in it, hurried back to the customer.

Adventures of Bindle |Herbert George Jenkins
The table was laid and there were flowers on it and a few pints of Heidsieck in a wine-cooler.

Old People and the Things That Pass |Louis Couperus
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old.

Familiar Quotations |John Bartlett

At that moment the superintendent discovered the wine-cooler full of hot water.

Adventures of Bindle |Herbert George Jenkins

wine cooler

a bucket-like vessel containing ice in which a bottle of wine is placed to be cooled

the full name for cooler (def. 3)