bottom-board

This was the bare truth: a great lock of it lay along the bottom-board like a stream of guineas poured out of a sack.

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

They are all fitted with bottom-boards; and I am of opinion that, if the triangular bottom-board in the stern-sheets is suspended over the lee side amidships by means of short lengths of line bent on to two of the corners, the arrangement will serve as a lee-board, and the boats will go to windward, although their speed may be slightly decreased.

The Log of a Privateersman Harry Collingwood 1886

If no gauze wire bottom-board is at hand, the hive must be wedged up, so as to admit an abundance of air, and be set in a shady place.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

She carefully explores all the cracks and crevices about the bottom-board, and if she finds a suitable place under them, lays her eggs among the parings of the combs, and other refuse matter which has fallen from the hive.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

On examining them, next day, they were all found dead on the bottom-board and among the combs!

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

The construction of my hives will allow, if at all desirable, of ventilation from above; and I always make use of it, when the bees are to be shut up for any length of time, in order to be moved; as in this case, there is always a risk that the ventilators on the bottom-board may be clogged by dead bees, and the colony suffocated.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

The permanent bottom-board, the firm attachment of the combs, each to a separate frame, and the facility with which, in my hive, any amount of air can be given to the bees when shut up, most admirably adapt it to this purpose.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

Lift the hive very gently, and without the slightest jar, from its bottom-board; invert it and carry it in the same careful manner, about a rod from its old stand, as bees are always much more inclined to be peaceable, when removed a short distance, than when any operation is performed on the familiar spot.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

When a new swarm is brought in this way to its intended home, the bottom-board may be unscrewed, and the bees transferred at once, to the new hive; (See p. 168.)

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

This is owing to the evaporation of the water from the freshly gathered honey, and it may often be seen running down in quite a stream from the bottom-board.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852