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kettle-bottom

American  
[ket-l-bot-uhm] / ˈkɛt lˌbɒt əm /

adjective

Nautical.

  1. noting a wide, flat-bottomed hull formerly used for merchant sailing vessels.

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We have shown him what a kettle-bottom can do before the wind, and now let him give us a tow to windward like a generous antagonist.

From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by Cooper, James Fenimore

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