bottomer
(ˈbɒtəmə(r))
[f. bottom v. + -er1.]
a. One who puts a bottom to anything. b. One who works at the lowest station. c. A draught in which the cup is drained to the bottom.
| 1723 Lond. Gaz. No. 6194/7 Elizabeth Squibb..Cane-Chair Bottomer. 1876 Blackmore Cripps III. xvi. 259 He firmly restricted good feeling..to three good bumpers, and a bottomer. 1881 Raymond Mining Gloss., Bottomer, the man stationed at the bottom of a shaft in charge of the proper loading of cages, etc. a 1887 Shop Notice-board. A. B. Chair-caner, Rush-bottomer. |