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/fɔls bˈɑtəm/ Listen

False bottom

noun

A horizontal structure that partitions a ship or box (especially one built close to the actual bottom).

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"False bottom" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the case," answered MacShaughnassy. "It seems to me that crime—at all events, interesting crime—is being slowly driven out of our existence. Pirates and highwaymen have been practically abolished. Dear old 'Smuggler Bill' has melted down his cutlass into a pint-can with a false bottom. The pressgang that was always so ready to rescue our hero from his approaching marriage has been disbanded. There's not a lugger fit for the purposes of abduction left upon the coast. Men settle their 'affairs of honour' in the law courts, and return home wounded only in the pocket. Assaults ...

— Novel Notes • Jerome K. Jerome

... probably answer, "Yes, ma'am," and go on her own way. Or she will let it stand till it burns to the bottom of the kettle,—a most common termination of the experiment. The only way to make sure of the matter is either to import a French kettle, or to fit into an ordinary kettle a false bottom, such as any tinman may make, that shall leave a space of an inch or two between the meat and the fire. This kettle may be maintained as a constant habitue of the range, and into it the cook may be instructed to throw all the fibrous trimmings of meat, all ...

— Household Papers and Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe

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