Definition of bottom

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Bottom (v. i.) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon..

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Strathspey :: Strath (n.) A valley of considerable size, through which a river runs; a valley bottom; -- often used in composition with the name of the river; as, Strath Spey, Strathdon, Strathmore..
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..
Springer :: Springer (n.) The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer..
Sounding :: Sounding (n.) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural..
Dory :: Dory (n.) A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides..
Lee :: Lee (n.) That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural..
Scuttle :: Scuttle (n.) A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship..
Pot-bellied :: Pot-bellied (a.) Having a protuberant belly, like the bottom of a pot..
Shed :: Shed (n.) The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads..
Bummery :: Bummery (n.) See Bottomery.
Flat-bottomed :: Flat-bottomed (a.) Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat..
Counterbore :: Counterbore (n.) A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head..
Overset :: Overset (v. t.) To turn or tip (anything) over from an upright, or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building..
Bottom :: Bottom (n.) An abyss.
Genouillere :: Genouillere (n.) That part of a parapet which lies between the gun platform and the bottom of an embrasure.
Foots :: Foots (n. pl.) The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead..
Floor :: Floor (n.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
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..
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.
Tuck :: Tuck (n.) The part of a vessel where the ends of the bottom planks meet under the stern.
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