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1424 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 177 (MED) Item, for botmynge of j tubbe with bordes.

1526 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Payd for botomyng of a basket.

1618 in T. Badesdale Hist. Navigation King's Lyn (1725) viii. 137 To preserve the North Side of the Wisbech: which Drain needeth only..bottoming in some places.

1788 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Yorks. I. 336 For the bottoming of farm-yards and dunghills, the entire ‘coping’, the soil inclusive, would be found excellent.

1847 W. M. Gillespie Man. Princ. & Pract. Road-making iv. 215 Where stones for bottoming would have been very expensive.

c1943 Everyday Things & their Story 162/1 When the tongue and the fabric loop at the top of the back strap have been sewn in, we have a completed upper ready for ‘bottoming’.

2013 A. Dunstan & M. Livingston in R. Malloy et al. Design with Desert xxiii. 402 Another crew is responsible for watering the tree regularly until the bottom of the box can be attached (bottoming).

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 179 So farre as may further him in the bottoming of the soule in mercy.

1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels Table sig. Bb^v Our hopes differs from others..in the bottoming of them by expectation.

1753 tr. G. Cattaneo Ess. Nat. Origin vi. 42 in Source, Strength & True Spirit of Laws Prudence forbids bottoming upon a controvertible Fact.

1795 S. T. Coleridge Moral & Polit. Lect. in Coll. Wks. (1971) I. 5 It will be..our endeavour..to evince the necessity of bottoming on fixed Principles, that so we may not be the unstable Patriots of Passion or Accident.

1818 J. Pye Smith Script. Test. Messiah I. i. iii. 44 If the bottoming motive, the ‘ob id ipsum’, of our faith in a doctrine, be not only and simply that it is clearly revealed.

1781 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. Norfolk (1787) II. 11 Perhaps generally, ashes raised in this way would be found highly advantageous as bottoming for farm-yards and dunghills.

1823 J. L. McAdam Road-making 49 These previous beds of stone are called the bottoming.

1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. iii. v. 179 A road..with a foundation or bottoming of large stones.

2003 N. Fields Hadrian's Wall AD 122–410 15 As a rule, it was..surfaced with fine gravel, resting upon a heavy bottoming of large cobbles with an under-layer of gravel bedding.

1856 How to farm & settle in Austral. 56 Deep-sinking was connected with the later practice of ‘bottoming’, in which the mass of the ‘drift’..was passed over, excepting a small quantity immediately adjacent to the rock or bottom on which it rested.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. vii. 189 The bottoming of three or more shafts on the supposed line of lead shall be a sufficient test.

1946 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 93 iiia. 299/1 The anode current has ceased to depend on grid voltage and depends only on anode voltage... The feature of ‘bottoming’ is extremely valuable in two ways; first it results in a true flattening of the bottom of the square wave, whose top is also flat since the valve is then cut off; and secondly it defines the lower limit of anode swing reasonably precisely, since this level is a property of the valve and not of the input driving waveform.

1955 Radio Constructor 9 105/2 If, as the instant of bottoming occurs, we cause the suppressor grid to be cut off again, the anode voltage will return to the h.t. voltage.

1995 M. H. Jones Pract. Introd. Electronic Circuits (ed. 3) iii. 52 Large amplitude signals can be handled before cut-off or bottoming occurs.

1958 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 9 Mar. 18/6 A new name for the predicted business upturn cropped up this week: An industrial leader spoke of the ‘bottoming up of business’ this fall.]

1965 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 1 Jan. 8/3 He said 1964 has seen the bottoming of a 10-year low in prices of range cattle.

1988 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 21 Apr. 6 Recent negotiations indicated a bottoming of prices.

2014 Financial Express (Nexis) 10 Jan. The company... attributes the bull run to the bottoming of economic growth and revival in corporate earnings.

1968 C. Dangerfield Wife with Mission i. 7 We always give the church a good clean down at this time of year... If it has a good bottoming now it lasts the year through without much more than dusting and polishing.

1992 D. Glazer Last Oasis 141 That cow Mavis would have given it a bottoming during the morning.

2000 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 18 Nov. 18 Each house is given a good ‘bottoming’, with all fragile valuables expertly cleaned, protected and stored until next season.

2012 www.mumsnet.com 29 Feb. (forum post, accessed 15 Sept. 2017) DD2's room needs ‘bottoming’, the loft needs sorting out, as does the shed, the conservatory and the caravan.

1815 S. Parkes Chem. Ess. III. xi. 432 It [sc. the glass] is immediately transferred to the furnace called the bottoming-hole, to be again heated.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 582 This spheroid having become cool and somewhat stiff, is next carried to the bottoming hole.

1903 Encycl. Brit. (new Werner ed.) X. 660/1 The blower now heats a third time at the ‘bottoming hole’, and blows the metal into a full-sized flattened spheroid.

1971 A. Pepper Glass Gaffers New Jersey 60 The blower would form a pear-shaped globule of glass which he then moved down to the ‘bottoming’ hole, in front of which was a low wall to protect the man against the heat, where he twirled the parison which caused it to spread out.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2495/1 Bottoming tap.

1943 Sci. & Mech. Spring 119/1 The most commonly used one is the plug tap and the least used is the bottoming tap.

2014 T. Denton Automotive Technician Training iv. 59/1 The bottoming tap has a continuous cutting edge with almost no taper.

1843 H. H. Pope Let. 30 Dec. in Documents Senate State N.-Y. (1845) (68th Sess.) III 90. 35 Aided by the frosts of last winter, the drain resulting from the perfecting the bottoming out of the canal.

1963 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. 51/4 Field reports indicated..order trends had reflected a bottoming out of the market.

1988 U.S. Patent 4,775,163 5 In the present invention.., link 110 is mounted so as to resist and retard this bottoming out of the suspension.

1992 Toronto Star (Nexis) 10 Oct. e15 We hear the squealing of brakes as people drive up to them [sc. speed bumps], the occasional bottoming out of cars as they drive over them, and the squeal of tires of they drive off.

2013 H. Flassdeck in H. Flassdeck et al. Econ. Reform Now iii. 63 Unemployment..seems to be more persistent..after the bottoming out of the recession.