“kettle-bottom”的英文意思

单词

kettle-bottom

释义

kettle-bottom
1. lit. The bottom of a kettle. fig. A name given to a hill with broad flat top and sloping sides.
1746MS. Log of the ship ‘Wake’ 13 Sept., The High Land of Pullicat from ye Kittle Bottom.1809Horsburgh Direct. Sailing I. 322 Far inland..there is a round conical hill called the Kettle Bottom.
2. ‘A ship with a flat floor’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867). So kettle-bottomed a.
1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxix. 101 She was a good, substantial ship..wall-sided and kettle-bottomed.

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