Bottom

barrels with the bottoms knocked out

a great ship’s kettle of iron, with the bottom knocked out

At the bottom of the staircase I stood and stared at the worn steps, and Ayesha, turning, saw me.

No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.

Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.

The Red Sox are at the bottom again.

There’s a hole in her pyjama bottoms.

In Ireland, where 14.5% of the population are jobless, emigration has climbed steadily since 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the Irish housing market. In the 12 months to April this year, 40,200 Irish passport-holders left, up from 27,700 the previous year, according to the central statistics office. Irish nationals were by far the largest constituent group among emigrants, at almost 53%.

bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two outs

a soda and a bottom of brandy

single-bottom plow

three-bottom plow

Near-synonym: fundus (anatomical)

There’s a fairy at the bottom of my garden.

I walked to the bottom of the street.

There was a pit in the bottom of my stomach.

get to the bottom of it

Thereupon Billali did a curious thing. Down he went, that venerable-looking old gentleman - for Billali is a gentleman at the bottom - down on to his hands and knees, and in this undignified position, with his long white beard trailing on the ground, he began to creep into the apartment beyond.

Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?

The horses staled in a small brook that runs in a bottom, betwixt two hills.

the bottoms and the high grounds

Calvin, if you shoot that paper clip at me, I'll get your bottom hauled to the principal's office so fast you'll think you were in a time warp!!

In the Carpathian Bottom makes abode / The Shepherd of the Seas, a Prophet and a God

We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...]

My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.

Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped.

James and Lukas would make a great couple if they weren't both bottoms.

Since what I wanted to do was be a bottom, a masochist, I had to learn that you could do it and be safe, that you could do it and not sign your life away, that you could do it by agreement, and that it was still fun.

lack bottom

This was why Dee had always ridden a buckskin; a man following his kind of trails needed a horse with bottom, and a line-back like this one never wore out.

the [silk]worms will fasten themselves, and make their bottoms, which in about fourteen days are finished.

Edward Hoby of Bisham in Berkshire, Esq; Or, a Fess, Sable, between three Hobby-Hawks, proper; otherwise, Azure, three Bottoms in Fess, Gules.

BOTTOM, a trundle or quill of gold thread. See TRUNDLE. Argent three bottoms, in fess gules, the thread or; name, Hoby, of Badland.

[...] three “bottoms or clewes” (elsewhere called “spindles” or “fusils upon slippers”) in fesse gules threaded or, for Badlond;

to bottom a chair

We shall bid that thoughtful waiter place beside him, near and handy, / Large supplies of soda water, tumblers bottomed well with brandy, […]

As you vnwinde her loue from him, / Lest it should rauel and be good to none, / You must prouide to bottome it on me.

But an absurd opinion concerning the king’s hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational, and bottomed upon solid principles of law and policy.

those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state

Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked.

My first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its windows, its pool bottomed with garbage sacks.

c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman Find out upon what foundation any proposition advanced bottoms'.

allowance at the bottom of blind bores for the chamfered tip of the reamer will obviate additional operations with shouldering or bottoming reamers to completely finish the entire length of a hole.

Squeaker's dog sniffed and barked joyfully around them till his licking efforts to bottom a salmon tin sent him careering in a muzzled frenzy, that caused the younger woman's thick lips to part grinningly till he came too close.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed on September 24, 2001. The CRB Index bottomed on October 24.

I've never bottomed in my life.

Daw hadn’t bottomed in a long time. He hadn’t had sex in a year.

Those files should go on the bottom shelf.

bottom dysphoria

bottom surgery