Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
bottom. Chaucer .
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Examples
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'I's niver wonder but he's at t' bothom of a bog-hoile.
Wuthering Heights Emily Bront�� 1833
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Take þere þridde part of sowre Dokkes and flour þerto. & bete it togeder tyl it be as towh as eny lyme. cast þerto salt. & do it in a disshe holke [2] in þe bothom, and let it out wiþ þy finger queynchche [3] in a chowfer [4] wiþ oile. & frye it wel. and whan it is ynowhz: take it out and cast þerto suger &c.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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"I's niver wonder but he's at t 'bothom of a bog-hoile.
Wuthering Heights 1847
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