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Well :: Well (v. i.) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water for the preservation of fish alive while they are transported to market..

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow..

Sieve :: Sieve (n.) A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes..

Tompion :: Tompion (n.) The iron bottom to which grapeshot are fixed.

Dunnage :: Dunnage (n.) Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion..

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag..

Nowel :: Nowel (n.) The bottom part of a mold or of a flask, in distinction from the cope; the drag..

Lepas :: Lepas (n.) Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, Gulf weed, etc.; -- called also goose barnacle. See Barnacle..

Bac :: Bac (n.) A broad, flatbottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope..

Ripple :: Ripple (v. i.) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore..

Full-bottomed :: Full-bottomed (a.) Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain..

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

Brisket :: Brisket (n.) That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest..

Floor :: Floor (n.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.

Fundus :: Fundus (n.) The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye..

Catchword :: Catchword (n.) The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing..

Bottomless :: Bottomless (a.) Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss..

Spur :: Spur (n.) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage..

Obelisk :: Obelisk (n.) An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom..

Genouillere :: Genouillere (n.) That part of a parapet which lies between the gun platform and the bottom of an embrasure.

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