bottom sb. (freq. in the ordinary sense, and fig. = ‘depths’)
1.
low-lying land, valley
AYL. IV. iii. 80
“down in the neighbour
bottom,”
1H4 III. i. 106
“so rich a ”
2.
ship, vessel (orig.
the keel or hull)
Mer.V. I. i. 42
“My ventures are not in
one bottom trusted,”
Tw.N. V. i. 61, John II. i. 73, H5 III. Chor. 12.
3.
ball of thread
Shr. IV. iii. 137
“ of brown
thread.”