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- adjective having a rounded bottom
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Examples
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The Uncle Toby's drift took them across the bow and they could not make out the name; but before night they picked up with a small, round-bottom, double-ender boat, swamped but with white lettering visible on its bow.
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As a round-bottom, weight-loaded toy stands erect, so the moon maintained its position with respect to earth.
"Once in a Blue Moon" by Harl Vincent, part 4 Johnny Pez 2009
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Brooks next cites "a vast array of technologies: the compass, the clock, the round-bottom boat, wagons with brakes and front axles, water wheels, eyeglasses, and so on ..." as the inventions of Catholic monasteries in the Dark or Middle Ages.
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All the fractions from the sample were combined in 250-mL round-bottom flasks, evaporated in rotary evaporator, and subjected to radioanalysis (Table 2).
Chapter 6 1995
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When the cross-section matches the template, he sets the circular die-almost like a round-bottom swage with a square base-into the anvil's hardie hole, and places the metal in the forge once more.
The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994
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Well, perhaps not that particular person's lamp, but one of the ancient, vile-smelling oil burning jobs: long thin spout, round-bottom body, wide, flaring handle.
Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991
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Well, perhaps not that particular person's lamp, but one of the ancient, vile-smelling oil burning jobs: long thin spout, round-bottom body, wide, flaring handle.
Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991
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A known quantity of the solution to be tested, containing acetone to the extent of 0.1 to 0.2 grm., is pipetted into a 500 c.c. round-bottom flask, diluted with a little water, and mixed with 20 to 30 c.c. of a 10 per cent. solution of caustic potash.
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The Uncle Toby's drift took them across the bow and they could not make out the name; but before night they picked up with a small, round-bottom, double-ender boat, swamped but with white lettering visible on its bow.
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The _Uncle Toby's_ drift took them across the bow and they could not make out the name; but before night they picked up with a small, round-bottom, double-ender boat, swamped but with white lettering visible on its bow.
A Son Of The Sun Jack London 1896
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