kettle-bottom

/ket-l-bot-uhm/US // ˈkɛt lˌbɒt əm //

釜底抽薪,水壶底,壶底,锅底

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
Nautical.
- : noting a wide, flat-bottomed hull formerly used for merchant sailing vessels.

He hits bottom at Rocamadour, a sanctuary in the Dordogne known as a citadel of faith devoted to Mary.
Despite its ranking at the bottom of most international development indexes, the conflict is shrouded by confusion.
Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon labels the show a “crass stunt” on a “bottom-feeding vortex of sadness network.”
Bottom line is that it will only be a BVR [beyond visual range] airplane.
On Monday, Soelistyo had jolted relatives as well as searchers by suggesting that the plane could be “at the bottom of the sea.”
But, as the keel of the boats touched bottom, each boat-load dashed into the water and then into the enemy's fire.
In these archipelagos the waters being shallow, the frost was quite intense enough to cool them to the bottom.
"I have a letter somewhere," looking in the machine drawer and finding the letter in the bottom of the workbasket.
In the presence of bromin the chloroform, which settles to the bottom, assumes a yellow color.
Roulard had played the trumpet in the regimental band in which Aristide had played the kettle drum.