Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having a flat bottom.
- adjective Having an even lower surface or bottom.
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- adjective Alternative form of
flat-bottomed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a flat bottom
- adjective having a flat bottom
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Examples
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Audi A half-turn of the leather-stitched, flat-bottom steering wheel will put you in Mongolia.
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"You've got to keep shocking the crocodile until it falls unconscious," the 52-year-old Mr. Praiphan as he twitched his thick, black mustache and patted a six-foot-long crocodile that was trussed up on the floor of his flat-bottom motorboat, located about a 20-minute drive from the center of Bangkok.
As Floodwaters Rise, So Do Thais' Crocodile Fears James Hookway 2011
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A flat-bottom design with a massive recoil lug, the Model 1999 comes in chrome-moly or stainless steel, in right - or left-hand configurations.
A Top-Notch Working Rifle: David Petzal Reviews the Montana Rifle Company Model 1999 Ridgeline 2009
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BURNETT: Five minutes later, Justin King backed his flat-bottom johnboat into the water to try and hook a big bass at the end of the day.
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They scrambled over the sides of their respective ships on cargo nets into the flat-bottom Higgins boats bound for the shore and the deadly fire of the demons of the Third Reich.
Can America Survive? John Hagee 2010
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They would house them for a day or two, waiting for al-Yamani to return with the flat-bottom barge, and then they would have nothing to do until the next batch arrived.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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On Tuesday, tribe member Russell Dardar, 42, took a flat-bottom boat out to one of those old cemeteries, now marked only by a white metal cross standing alone in the marsh grass.
Gulf oil spill touches isolated Pointe-au-Chien Indian tribe and its past 2010
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The steamer "Chapala" is a flat-bottom stern-wheel boat, very like those that are common on the shallow rivers of the West; the only boats adapted to shoal-water service.
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On Tuesday, tribe member Russell Dardar, 42, took a flat-bottom boat out to one of those old cemeteries, now marked only by a white metal cross in the marsh grass.
Gulf oil spill could push Pointe-au-Chien Indian tribe to the point of no return 2010
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Or the way the rear of a flat-bottom boat drifted in its sluggish ripples as its nose remained wedged in the bank.
Dynamite Cynthia Hawkins 2010
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