Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See double bottom.

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Examples

  • When the Ombindi people took Maria off to find their doctor in Hamburg, voices began calling - voices of the Fungus Pygmies who breed in the tanks at the interface between fuel and water-bottom began to call to him.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

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