Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Shaped like a fish's belly; swelling downward: as, a fish-bellied rail.
Wiktionary
- adj. Bellying or swelling out on the underside.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Bellying or swelling out on the under side.
Examples
“The malleable rails were of the kind called “fish-bellied,” and weighed 28 lbs. to the yard, being 2¼ inches broad at the top, with the upper flange ¾ inch thick.”
Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson
“The line was at first laid with fish-bellied rails weighing thirty-five pounds to the yard, calculated only for horse-traffic, or, at most, for engines like the “Rocket,” of very light weight.”
Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson
“Locked in the bathroom, so paralyzed by the thought of my disgusting, white, fish-bellied body being seen by him that I couldn’t open the door.”
“Birmingham Railway, opened in 1838, was laid with Berkenshaw rails; part with the straight and part with the fish-bellied rail, and the remainder with reversible "bull-headed" rail, both types being supported by chairs. [”
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