tumble home

noun

Nautical. an inward and upward slope of the middle body of a vessel.
Also tum·ble·home . a similar shape for the body of an automobile.

Origin of tumble home

First recorded in 1825–35

Words Nearby tumble home

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How to use tumble home in a sentence

She has a ram bow, long counter, and fin-bulb keel, with narrow beam and sides that tumble home above the water-line.
Yachting Vol. 1 | Various.
The midsection was formed with moderately short and rising floor, round and easy bilge, and some tumble-home in the topside.
The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model | Howard I. Chapelle
To obviate this risk, the sides were curved in above the water-line in what was called "a tumble home."
A Short History of the Royal Navy 1217 to 1688 | David Hannay
The Ellen Burgee was an old-fashioned ship, with long single topsails, a mackerel-head bow, and tumble-home sides.
Harper's Round Table, June 18, 1895 | Various
That's what makes Sperril tumble home from the waist uppards.
Soldiers Three, Part II. | Rudyard Kipling

British Dictionary definitions for tumblehome

tumblehome

/ (ˈtʌmbəlˌhəʊm) /

noun

the inward curvature of the upper parts of the sides of a vessel at or near the stern

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