false bottom

Other forms: false bottoms

Definitions of false bottom
  1. noun
    a horizontal structure that partitions a ship or box (especially one built close to the actual bottom)
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    type of:
    construction, structure
    a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
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