bottom¹ n OED ~ 6 (1603-) for sense 1.
   1 The innermost part of a bay, harbour or inlet; the land adjoining the inmost part of a bay.
   1612 Willoughby Papers [Guy's journal] Nov 5 That Passage harbour before spoaken of is in the bottome of the bay of Placentia. 1620 WHITBOURNE 2 And here I pray you note, that the bottomes of these Bayes do meet together, within the compasse of a small circuit. 1630 VAUGHAN 68 I advised him to erect his Habitation in the bottome of the Bay at Aquaforte. [1770] 1792 CARTWRIGHT i, 43 My new friends intend to spend the Winter in the bottom of the cove. 1837 BLUNT 2 At the bottom of the bay you will perceive Petty Harbour; the entrance is to the northward of a low point of land, which shuts the harbor in from the sea. 1846 TOCQUE 117 ... persons who lived a winter in the bottom of Bonavista Bay. 1917 Christmas Bells 1 Holyrood, at the bottom of Conception Bay, has become one of our favorite summer resorts. 1953 Nfld & Lab Pilot ii, 230 The head of the bay, known as South-West Bottom, is encumbered with above-water and sunken rocks. 1964 Evening Telegram 1 Oct, p. 13
   Most of the inhabitants fled with their valuables in shallops and schooners to the deep fjords at the bottom of
   Trinity Bay where they buried or lost treasure. 1977 Nfld Qtly Winter, p. 19 For to run in Fortune Bay that
   night in a sailing-schooner, in a storm of wind right in through the bay—no radars or nothing at them times.
   well, you'd be up the bottom of Fortune Bay where the nights are long. So I knew we'd be up the bottom of
   Fortune Bay before daylight.
   2 A section of netting forming the floor of a cod-trap.
   1936 SMITH 19 We put the bottoms in our traps there, and painted up our trap boat and cod seine boat. P 9-73 Most cod traps are made in four pieces. Two sides, the bottom and the leader.
   3 Phr bottom up: upside down.
   1924 ENGLAND 67 'De glass'm bottom up, sir. Her'm down to 29, an' havin' awful works!' T 45/6-64 They used to have big old bark pots then, they had for barkin' the traps, and everything—'twas bottom up.

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