bottoms

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The total value of merchandise yearly shipped in Dutch bottoms, in all seas, exceeded a thousand million francs.

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  1. noun The deepest or lowest part: the bottom of a well; the bottom of the page.
  2. noun The part closest to a reference point: was positioned at the bottom of the key for a rebound.
  3. noun The underside: scraped the bottom of the car on a rock.

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  • In the early days of the Commonwealth the painfulness of the situation was accentuated by the fact that some of our colonies or plantations, as they were then called—Virginia and the Barbadoes, for example—stuck to the king and gave a commercial preference to the Dutch, shipping their produce to all parts of the world exclusively in Dutch bottoms. —  Andrew Marvell
  • When they get too cold they warm up by bathing in the hot springs, and while their bottoms are almost boiled the snow still sits on their heads. —  The Japanese Corpse - Janwillem van de Wetering - Grijpstra-De Gier 05
  • The pajama bottoms are a pair of long pants and a pair of shorts. —  Everything2 New Writeups
  • An example screenshot (without explicitly switching to full screen mode so that the bottom line of four bottoms is also visible): screenshot —  Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine
  • It was decreed that only such Negroes, goods, and merchandise should be received by the islands and colonies as should be brought in French bottoms. —  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
 

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