kettle-bottom

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• Kettle

  ·noun A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling wate...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Kettle

  A large pot for cooking. The same Hebrew word (dud, "boiling") is rendered also "pot" (Ps. 81:6), "c...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• kettle

  The brass or metal box of a compass. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Kettle

  a vessel for culinary or sacrificial purposes. (1 Samuel 2:14) The Hebrew word is also rendered "bas...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Bottom

  ·noun The fundament; the buttocks. II. Bottom ·noun An <<Abyss>>. III. Bottom ·noun Dregs or groun...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• bottom

  A polite term for the posteriors. Also, in the sporting sense, strength and spirits to support fatig...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bottom

  I. n. in gold-mining, the old river-bedupon which the wash-dirt rests, and upon which the richesta...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• bottom

  Low land with a rich soil formed by alluvial deposits, and formerly the bottom or bed of a stream or...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bottom

  A name for rich low land formed by alluvial deposits: but in a general sense it denotes the lowest p...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• kettle-net

  A net used in taking mackerel. ...

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• pitch-kettle

  That in which the pitch is heated, or in which it is carried from the pitch-pot. ...

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• Bottom fermentation

  ·add. ·- A slow alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells collect at the bottom of the fer...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Sulphur-bottom

  ·noun A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S....

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• bottom-lands

  In the Western States, this name is given to the rich flat land on the banks of rivers, which in New...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bottom-clean

  Thoroughly clean, free from weeds, &c. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• bottom-plank

  That which is placed between the garboard-strake and lower back-strake. ...

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• bottom-wind

  A phenomenon that occurs on the lakes in the north of England, especially Derwent Water, which is of...

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• foul bottom

  A ship to which sea-weed, shells, or other encumbrances adhere. Also, the bottom of the sea if rocky...

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• sharp bottom

  Synonymous with a sharp floor; used in contradistinction to a flat floor: the epithet denotes vessel...

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• stiff bottom

  A clayey bottom. ...

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• kettle of fish

  When a person has perplexed his affairs in general, or any particular business, he is said to have m...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• kettle of fish

  When a person has been perplexed in his affairs in general, or in any particular business, he is sai...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• kettle of fish

  To have made a pretty kettle of fish of it, implies a perplexity in judgment. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• filling a ship's bottom

  Implies covering the bottom of a ship with broad-headed nails, so as to give her a sheathing of iron...

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• pay a vessel's bottom, to

  To cover it with tallow, sulphur, rosin, &c. (See breaming.) ...

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