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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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Probe :: Probe (v. t.) Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly.

Flat :: Flat (n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught..

Bottom :: Bottom (v. t.) To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.

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..

Face :: Face (v. t.) To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress..

Sill :: Sill (n.) A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.

Surrogate :: Surrey (n.) A four-wheeled pleasure carriage, (commonly two-seated) somewhat like a phaeton, but having a straight bottom..

Snag :: Snag (n.) A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk..

Full-bottomed :: Full-bottomed (a.) Of great capacity below the water line.

Buoy :: Buoy (n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc..

Colander :: Colander (n.) A utensil with a bottom perforated with little holes for straining liquids, mashed vegetable pulp, etc.; a strainer of wickerwork, perforated metal, or the like..

Shelve :: Shelve (v. i.) To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore..

Ploughshare :: Ploughshare (n.) The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow..

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

Berme :: Berme (n.) A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

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..

Arming :: Arming (n.) A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom..

Hypothecation :: Hypothecation (n.) A contract whereby, in consideration of money advanced for the necessities of the ship, the vessel, freight, or cargo is made liable for its repayment, provided the ship arrives in safety. It is usually effected by a bottomry bond. See Bottomry..

Thoroughgoing :: Thoroughgoing (a.) Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete..

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.