See Also: Bottom(money)
Bottom Out(money)
BOTTOM(finance)
bottom ash(medicine)
Bottom(medicine)
bottom(1)(dictionary)
bottom(2)(dictionary)
Bottom(dictionary)
bottom-up(dictionary)
Foggy Bottom(dictionary)

bottom(2) (iou)



bottom verb. E16.
[from the noun.]
verb trans. Put a bottom to, provide with a bottom; fig. base, ground, (up)on. E16.
Oxford English Dictionary Send this saucepan to be new bottomed.
verb trans. Wind (as a skein). L16-E17.
verb intrans. Be based or grounded. M17-L18.
verb trans. Reach or touch the bottom of; find the extent or real nature of; drain, empty (a glass etc.). L18.
Coleridge Openly declaiming on subjects..which they had never bottomed.
verb intrans. Reach or touch bottom; reach its lowest level (freq. foll. by out). L19.
Glasgow Herald Others with shallower purses are content to wait until prices have bottomed.
b. spec. Strike gold etc. Also foll. by on (gold etc.). Austral. & NZ. L19.
bottomer noun a person who provides or fits bottoms (esp. for chairs) E18.