1. lit. The bottom of a kettle. fig. A name given to a hill with broad flat top and sloping sides.
1746. MS. Log of the ship ‘Wake,’ 13 Sept. The High Land of Pullicat from ye Kittle Bottom.
1809. Horsburgh, Direct. Sailing, I. 322. Far inland … there is a round conical hill called the Kettle Bottom.
2. ‘A ship with a flat floor’ (Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., 1867). So Kettle-bottomed a.
1840. R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xxix. 101. She was a good, substantial ship … wall-sided and kettle-bottomed.
