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boottopping

boottopping is the alternative form 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.

Forms of boottopping

pluralboottoppings

Questions about boottopping

What is boottopping the alternative form of?
Boottopping is the alternative form of boot-topping.

Words near boottopping in the dictionary

  1. bootstrings
  2. bootstripe
  3. bootstripes
  4. bootsy
  5. Boott's rattlesnake root
  6. boottopping
  7. boottoppings
  8. boottree
  9. boottrees
  10. bootup
  11. bootups

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