Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped like a fish's belly; swelling downward: as, a fish-bellied rail.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bellying or swelling out on the under side.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Bellying or swelling out on the underside.
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Examples
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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 Samuel Smiles 1858
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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 Samuel Smiles 1858
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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.
Change of Heart Jodi Picoult 2008
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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. [
Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Various
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