Bottom(n.)
- The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
Bottom(n.)
- The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.
Bottom(n.)
- That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
Bottom(n.)
- The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
Bottom(v. i.)
- To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.
Bottom(v. i.)
- To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.