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Berme :: Berme (n.) A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank..

Fother :: Fother (v. t.) To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack..

Sole :: Sole (n.) The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes.

Bottom :: Bottom (v. i.) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder..

Stretcher :: Stretcher (n.) A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.

Plinth :: Plinth (n.) In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column..

Foots :: Foots (n. pl.) The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead..

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

Teredo :: Teredo (n.) A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App..

Foot :: Foot (n.) The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain or column; also, the last of a row or series; the end or extremity, esp. if associated with inferiority; as, the foot of a hill; the foot of the procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed..

Webbing :: Webbing (n.) A woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths, bed bottoms, etc..

Relief :: Relief (n.) The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch.

Undertow :: Undertow (n.) The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.

Breech Screw :: Breech screw () A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore..

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..

Respondentia :: Respondentia (n.) A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself..

Surface :: Surf (n.) The bottom of a drain.

Ceriph :: Ceriph (n.) One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters..

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..

Pale :: Pale (n.) A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket..

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