Definition of bottom

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Bottom (n.) A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

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Amphora :: Amphora (n.) Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc..
Hydrography :: Hydrography (n.) That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars..
Unbottomed :: Unbottomed (a.) Having no bottom; bottomless.
Unbottomed :: Unbottomed (a.) Deprived of a bottom.
Abysmal :: Abysmal (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound..
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..
Tuck :: Tuck (n.) The part of a vessel where the ends of the bottom planks meet under the stern.
Abyss :: Abyss (n.) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit..
Respondentia :: Respondentia (n.) A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself..
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..
Sediment :: Sediment (n.) The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs..
Foots :: Foots (n. pl.) The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead..
Dory :: Dory (n.) A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides..
Hypothecate :: Hypothecate (v. t.) To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry..
Base :: Base (n.) The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue..
Copperworm :: Copperworm (n.) The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper..
Tail :: Tail (n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile..
Aground :: Aground (adv. & a.) On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.
Bottom :: 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..
Broad :: Broad (n.) A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
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