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Definition of bottom

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Bottom (n.) The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface..

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Creeper :: Creeper (n.) An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there..

Flooring :: Flooring (n.) A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n..

Dock :: Dock (v. t.) To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc..

Stoolball :: Stool (n.) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to..

Gulgul :: Gulgul (n.) A cement made in India from sea shells, pulverized and mixed with oil, and spread over a ship's bottom, to prevent the boring of worms..

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope..

Rhabdolith :: Rhabdolith (n.) A minute calcareous rodlike structure found both at the surface and the bottom of the ocean; -- supposed by some to be a calcareous alga.

Apophyge :: Apophyge (n.) The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape.

Aground :: Aground (adv. & a.) On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.

Sediment :: Sediment (n.) The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs..

Copper-bottomed :: Copper-bottomed (a.) Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship..

Ripple :: Ripple (v. i.) To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain..

Ground :: Ground (v. i.) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed; as, the ship grounded on the bar..

Valley :: Valley (n.) The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively..

Burr :: Burr (n.) The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8..

Gabion :: Gabion (n.) A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire..

Tub :: Tub (n.) An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes..

Router :: Router (n.) A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity..

Bilge :: Bilge (v. t.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel)..

Well :: Well (v. i.) An inclosure in the middle of a vessel's hold, around the pumps, from the bottom to the lower deck, to preserve the pumps from damage and facilitate their inspection..