Definition of "round-bottom" [round-bottom]

• Having a rounded bottom (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The Uncle Toby's drift took them across the bow and they could not make out the name; but before night they picked up with a small, round-bottom, double-ender boat, swamped but with white lettering visible on its bow."
• "As a round-bottom, weight-loaded toy stands erect, so the moon maintained its position with respect to earth."
• "Brooks next cites "a vast array of technologies: the compass, the clock, the round-bottom boat, wagons with brakes and front axles, water wheels, eyeglasses, and so on ..." as the inventions of Catholic monasteries in the Dark or Middle Ages."