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tumble home
noun
- Nautical. an inward and upward slope of the middle body of a vessel.
- Also tumble·home. a similar shape for the body of an automobile.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tumble home1
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Example Sentences
She has a ram bow, long counter, and fin-bulb keel, with narrow beam and sides that tumble home above the water-line.
The midsection was formed with moderately short and rising floor, round and easy bilge, and some tumble-home in the topside.
To obviate this risk, the sides were curved in above the water-line in what was called "a tumble home."
The Ellen Burgee was an old-fashioned ship, with long single topsails, a mackerel-head bow, and tumble-home sides.
That's what makes Sperril tumble home from the waist uppards.
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