bottoming tap (botumingtap)

A tap IMG:content-2367.png:[blocks in formation] boche, buche, etc., mouth, having accurately defined duties, formed this establish 2. A certain allowance of provisions made by a king to those who obeyed his summons to the field, according to the feudal system of military service. Hence-3t. Any supply of provisions; provisionty food. Formerly corruptly bouge. A bombard-man that brought bouge for a country lady or two that fainted, he said, with fasting. B. Jonson, Masque of Love Restored. 4. In medieval armor, a notch or indentation in the upper right-hand edge of the shield, allowing a weapon to be pa ed through it. In the justing shield, this was sometimes of the form of a diagonal slit terminating in a round hole of the size of After making nearly a semicircle around the pond, they diverged from the water-course, and began to ascend to the level of a slight elevation in that bottom - land over which they journeyed. Cooper, Last of Mohicans, xxii. bottomle (bot'um-les), a. [ He fond but botmeles behestes. Chaucer, Troilus, v. 1431. ( b ) Fathomle ; unfathomable; inexhaustible: as, a bottomle aby or ocean. Is not my sorrow deep, having no bottom? Then be my pa ions bottomle with them. Shak., Tit. And., iii. 1. bottom-lift (bot'um-lift), n. In mining, the deepest or bottom tier of pumps. bottommost (bot'um-mōst), a. [ bottom + -most. Cf. topmost , etc.] Situated at the very bottom; lowest. [Rare.] bottom-plate (bot'um-plat), n. 1. The bed supporting the carriage of a printing-pre .- 2. The bed of knives immediately beneath the cylinder of a pulping-engine. It is formed of a number of knife-plates placed flat against each other, with their upper knife-edges adjusted to conform to the curve of the cylinder above, which also contains knives. Between these two sets of knives the raw material, as rags, wood, or other substance, is ground to pulp. II. a. [Attrib. use of noun.] Situated at the 3. In ordnance, a plate used in building up bottom; lowest; undermost; fundamental: as, the bottom stair; the bottom coin of a pile. This is the bottom fact of the whole political situation. Nineteenth Century , XX. 296. Bottom heat. See heat . bottom (bot'um), v. [ IMG:content-2368.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To fathom; reach or get to the bottom of. The spirit of self-will, of insistence on our own views, which we have probably never really bottomed, or traced to principles. Contemporary Rev., L. 350. 41. To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread. Therefore, as you unwind her love from him, Lest it should ravel, and be good to none, You must provide to bottom it on me. Shak., T. G. of V., iii. 2. 5. In dyeing, to dye first with a certain color in preparation for another. grape and canister into a cylinder ready for loading into a gun. Cast-iron top and bottom-plates are used for grape, and wrought-iron ones for canister. Also called bottom.