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OE Beowulf (2008) 1506 Þa heo to botme com.

c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 144 Þe wawes..Durst nowhere for roȝ arest at þe bothem.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 116 Now..To the bothom is it sonken.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 4 Soom synck too bottoms, sulcking thee surges asunder.

1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. ix. 149 So great abundance of Water, that they can neither find the bottome or bounds thereof.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 141 The Sun..darting to the bottom, bak'd the Mud. View more context for this quotation

1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 376 The Bottom is very good anchoring Ground.

1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica II. 683 [Isoetes lacustris] Quillwort. Anglis. It grows under the water at the bottom of the highland lakes, but not very common.

1790 tr. V. Denon Trav. Sicily & Malta (new ed.) 78 I could not judge of its depth, which they say has been sounded more than half a mile without touching bottom.

1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms ii. 22 Down to the bottom must she go With all who wake or sleep.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. ii. 75 The oozy bottom of clear lakes and pools.

1832 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges (ed. 2) vii. 370 Braces, strutting considerably, were driven down as far as possible into the bottom of the river, at each end of the trestles.

1942 L. D. Rich We took to Woods vii. 184 The cook may say, ‘I lost my wangan when the work boat swamped’, and that means that his dishes are at the bottom of the lake.

1968 G. Bennett Naval Battles First World War (1974) vii. 132 Two salvoes sent the Cöln to the bottom, with Admiral Maass, his Flag Captain and all but one of her crew.

2013 L. Billings Five Billion Years Solitude vi. 129 The decomposition used up a lot of oxygen, more than could be replaced by turnover and circulation in the deep water. That was great news for anaerobic, sulfate-reducing bacteria already living on the bottom.