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bottom end

noun

  1. (in vertical engines) another name for big end


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There are fewer yakuza on the bottom end of the underworld economy.

It was in one such club at the bottom end of the Champs Élysées, which was then under construction, that Baudelaire first saw her.

On lifting the fingers in successive order from the bottom end, we get the seven notes of the major scale.

At the bottom end there were some narrow steps, leading through a large hole into a room above—the “chapel.”

For all that the Jewish boy would have to do would be to make a fairly straight line, sloping a little out at the bottom end.

He was holding the top end, his younger brother the bottom end, but Pukehane wanted that.

The bottom end is treated like that of the pump-barrel and supplied with a large shot.

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