false bottom

NOUN
  1. a horizontal structure that partitions a ship or box (especially one built close to the actual bottom)
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How To Use false bottom In A Sentence

  • Line a false bottomed tart pan 9-10 round or square with the pie dough, fill with beans or pieweights and prebake on a cookie sheet for 10-15 minutes. Toast:
  • Messieurs the packers have, at my request, sent in the evening several charming little boxes, with compartments and false bottoms, and several paper bags (in the untearable Japanese paper), which close of themselves and are fastened by strings, also in paper, arranged beforehand in the most ingenious manner -- quite the cleverest and most handy thing of its kind; for little useful trifles these people are unrivalled. The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • Customs and Excise officers x-rayed his suitcase full of women's clothing he claimed was his girlfriend's and then ripped open its false bottom to uncover the drugs.
  • After the wool has been through these scouring liquors it is thrown on a scray to drain, and is next placed in cisterns which have perforated false bottoms. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
  • Most modern cupboards have a false bottom. Times, Sunday Times
  • Messrs, the packers have, at my request, sent in the evening several charming little boxes, with compartments and false bottoms, and several paper bags (in the untearable Japanese paper), which close of themselves and are fastened by strings, also in paper, arranged beforehand in the most ingenious manner, -- quite the cleverest and most handy thing of its kind; for little useful trifles these people are unrivaled. Madame Chrysantheme
  • False bottoms and bear market rallies have trapped investors since time immemorial.
  • The drugs had been hidden in a suitcase with a false bottom.
  • The whole of the window section can be pulled slightly adrift of its moorings and pivoted magically into the boot, which turns out to have a false bottom, like a spy's suitcase.
  • You were each packed in a barrel with salted parsit fish, and over your heads these barrels had a false bottom, which was covered with more parsit fish. Cinnamon Roll
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