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boot-toppings

boot-toppings is the plural of boot-topping.

Meaning of boot-topping

Noun

boot-topping (plural boot-toppings)

  1. The process of cleaning the upper part of a ship's underwater hull and daubing it with a protecting layer of antifouling substance.
  2. Any substance used for boot-topping, especially a mixture of tallow, sulphur or lime and rosin, which was commonly used to paint the bottoms of wooden ships, as a deterrent against weeds and barnacles, and to reduce friction.
  3. The paint of the part of the hull that is designed to be underwater.

Questions about boot-toppings

What is boot-toppings the plural of?
Boot-toppings is the plural of boot-topping.

Words near boot-toppings in the dictionary

  1. boot-licky
  2. boot-stand
  3. boot-studder
  4. boot-studders
  5. boot-topping
  6. boot-toppings
  7. boot-tree
  8. boot-trees
  9. bootability
  10. bootable
  11. bootables

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