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  • adjective having a rounded bottom

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Examples

  • 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 LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    Larry Beinhart: Deconstructing David Brooks 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

  • 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 Little Account With Swithin Hall 1912

  • 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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