Definition of bottom

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Bottom (n.) That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork..

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Strake :: Strake (n.) One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak..
Abyss :: Abyss (n.) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit..
Sounding :: Sounding (n.) The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom..
Intervale :: Intervale (n.) A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7..
Surface :: Surf (n.) The bottom of a drain.
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..
Fundus :: Fundus (n.) The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye..
Broad :: Broad (n.) A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
Sheathing :: Sheathing (n.) The casing or covering of a ship's bottom and sides; the materials for such covering; as, copper sheathing..
Tap :: Tap (n.) A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
Riprap :: Riprap (n.) A foundation or sustaining wall of stones thrown together without order, as in deep water or on a soft bottom..
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..
Seat :: Seat (v. t.) To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair..
Full-bottomed :: Full-bottomed (a.) Of great capacity below the water line.
Keckle :: Keckle (v. t.) To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice..
Burr :: Burr (n.) The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8..
Copperworm :: Copperworm (n.) The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper..
Praam :: Praam (n.) A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war..
Coupon :: Coupon (n.) A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant..
Mould :: Mould (n.) A frame with a wire cloth bottom, on which the pump is drained to form a sheet, in making paper by hand..
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