[f. BOTTOM v. + -ER1.]

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  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.

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1723.  Lond. Gaz., No. 6194/7. Elizabeth Squibb … Cane-Chair Bottomer.

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1876.  Blackmore, Cripps, III. xvi. 259. He firmly restricted good feeling … to three good bumpers, and a bottomer.

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1881.  Raymond, Mining Gloss., Bottomer.… The man stationed at the bottom of a shaft in charge of the proper loading of cages,… etc.

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Shop Notice-board. A. B. Chair-caner, Rush-bottomer.

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