bottom ((n.))†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the level, low-lying land bordering a stream; interval.

Quotations

1793

The Bottoms or flat lands are overflowed and covered with drifted Wood, the upland only produces White Oak.

1920

Beyond the fields she could gallop at will over the rolling, grassy bottoms among the patches of scrub and willow.