bottom¹ n
   1 1987 POWELL 49-50 In late April or early May they would leave the bottom of the bay where their winter homes were--where there was shelter from the winter storms and plenty of firewood--and go to their summer homes. 1989 Evening Telegram 14 Dec, p. 1 'The average earnings for a lobster fisherman at the bottom of Fortune Bay could be around $5,200 and that in itself accounts for maybe 80 or 85 per cent of his fishing income.'
   2 Also: the lower portion of a trawl net; hence comb bottom roller: one of the steel balls or rubber disks, 40.6 to 61 cm in diameter, that are mounted on the bottom of the net (1986 Nfld's Deepsea Fishery 650).
   [1899] 1977 WHITELEY 40 'Finding this worked well the bottom net or 'trap' was first tried in 1871 with great success.' 1986 Nfld's Deepsea Fishery 650 A horseshoe [is] a raised semi-circular portion of the trawl deck on some stern trawlers... Bottom rollers fit snugly around it when the net is yanked back on deck.

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