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单词 kettle-bottom
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kettle-bottomn.

Brit. /ˈkɛtlˌbɒtəm/, U.S. /ˈkɛd(ə)lˌbɑdəm/
1. literal. The bottom of a kettle. figurative. A name given to a hill with broad flat top and sloping sides.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > round or conical
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1746 MS. Log of the ship ‘Wake’ 13 Sept. The High Land of Pullicat from ye Kittle Bottom.
1809 Horsburgh 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).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun]
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1838 J. F. Cooper Homeward Bound I. iii. 34 The Montauk..was a first-class specimen of the ‘kettle-bottom’ school of naval architecture.

Derivatives

kettle-bottomed adj.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [adjective]
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kettle-bottomed1838
1838 J. F. Cooper Homeward Bound I. x. 151 Joe was presbyterian-built, as we say, kettle-bottomed, and stowed well.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxix. 101 She was a good, substantial ship..wall-sided and kettle-bottomed.
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