Bottoms
['bɒtəms]
Examples
- Strong bulkheads, and double bottoms with air-tight compartments, impart buoyancy in case of collision. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is a beautiful country, he replied; but these bottoms must be dirty in winter. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- They were sodden, as were his socks and trouser-bottoMs. But he himself was quick and warm. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In addition to the sands on the beaches, they occur very abundantly in many inland locations, which were formerly sea bottoms, and very extensively in the great deserts of the world. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Simply because if ice sank to the bottoms of rivers, lakes, and oceans as fast as it froze, those places would be frozen up and there would be no water left. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We were twenty days upon the road, crossing two sea bottoms and passing through or around a number of ruined cities, mostly smaller than Korad. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- As soon as these are hot, gas and air are shut off by valves from chambers C and E, and gas and air admitted to the bottoms of the now hot chambers C′ and E′. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Portia