Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The falling in or curvature inward toward the central plane of the side of a vessel from the water-line upward. Also called
tumbling-home . - noun Nautical, the part of a ship which inclines inward above the extreme breadth.
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Examples
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The other man, a slender German of five and twenty, with the massive forehead of a scholar and the tumble-home chin of a degenerate, did not trouble to reply.
A SON OF THE SUN 2010
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Two men lounge under the deck awning: Harrison J. Griffiths, the captain, and Jacobsen, mate, the latter a German of 25 years, "with the massive forehead of a scholar and the tumble-home chin of a degenerate," busy rolling a ball of cigarette paper containing powdered quinine and swallowing it.
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A hourque or hulk denoted a large ship with a distinctive hull type, designed for maximum cargo volume, broad in the beam, with a rounded bow and stern, a comparatively flat bottom, high sides curved out and then in again, in a pattern that sailors called “tumble-home.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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A hourque or hulk denoted a large ship with a distinctive hull type, designed for maximum cargo volume, broad in the beam, with a rounded bow and stern, a comparatively flat bottom, high sides curved out and then in again, in a pattern that sailors called “tumble-home.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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She was a large ship, English built, with a turtle-backed stern, painted white on the tumble-home of the quarter.
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The result was a section having very moderate rise of straight floor, carried farther out in proportion to beam than in the _Ohio_, but with rather easy turn of the bilge and moderate tumble-home in the upper topsides.
The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 Howard Irving Chapelle
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The midsection was formed with moderately short and rising floor, round and easy bilge, and some tumble-home in the topside.
The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 Howard Irving Chapelle
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The Snark was forty-three feet on the water-line and fifty-five over all, with fifteen feet beam (tumble-home sides) and seven feet eight inches draught.
Chapter 17 1913
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The other man, a slender German of five and twenty, with the massive forehead of a scholar and the tumble-home chin of a degenerate, did not trouble to reply.
A Son of the Sun 1912
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The Snark was forty-three feet on the water-line and fifty-five over all, with fifteen feet beam (tumble-home sides) and seven feet eight inches draught.
Chapter 17 1911
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