This was why Dee had always ridden a buckskin; a man following his kind of trails needed a horse withbottom, and a line-back like this one never wore out.
Thereupon Billali did a curious thing. Down he went, that venerable-looking old gentleman - for Billali is a gentleman at thebottom - down on to his hands and knees, and in this undignified position, with his long white beard trailing on the ground, he began to creep into the apartment beyond.
2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, inthe Guardian[1]:
In Ireland, where 14.5% of the population are jobless, emigration has climbed steadily since 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and thebottom fell out of the Irish housing market. In the 12 months to April this year, 40,200 Irish passport-holders left, up from 27,700 the previous year, according to the central statistics office. Irish nationals were by far the largest constituent group among emigrants, at almost 53%.
1697,Virgil, “The Fourth Book of theGeorgics”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.[…], London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC:
In the CarpathianBottom makes abode / The Shepherd of the Seas, a Prophet and a God
1981 August 15, Nancy Wechsler, Gayle Rubin, Pat Califia, “Sadomasochism: Fears, Facts, Fantasies”, inGay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 6:
Since what I wanted to do was be abottom, a masochist, I had to learn that you could do it and be safe, that you could do it and not sign your life away, that you could do it by agreement, and that it was still fun.
1707,J[ohn] Mortimer,The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land.[…], London:[…] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock[…], and J[onathan] Robinson[…],→OCLC:
the [silk]worms will fasten themselves, and make theirbottoms, which in about fourteen days are finished.
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But an absurd opinion concerning the king’s hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational, andbottomed upon solid principles of law and policy.
1692–1717,Robert South,Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume(please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
those false and deceiving grounds upon which manybottom their eternal state
2001, United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law,Executive Orders and Presidential Directives, p.59:
Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even whenbottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked.
(transitive, chiefly in passive) To lie on the bottom of; tounderlie, to lie beneath.[from 18th c.]
1989, B Mukherjee,Jasmine:
My first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its windows, its poolbottomed with garbage sacks.
'c. 1703,John Locke,Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman
Find out upon what foundation any proposition advancedbottoms.
(mechanics,intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.[from 19th c.]
1977, Roger W. Autor Bolz,Production Processes: The Productivity Handbook[2], page12-81:
allowance at the bottom of blind bores for the chamfered tip of the reamer will obviate additional operations with shouldering orbottoming reamers to completely finish the entire length of a hole.
1902,Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson,Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published1980, page21:
Squeaker's dog sniffed and barked joyfully around them till his licking efforts tobottom a salmon tin sent him careering in a muzzled frenzy, that caused the younger woman's thick lips to part grinningly till he came too close.
Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, inJournal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)[3], volume17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page135
