tumble home

plural tumble homes

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of tumblehome

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   The characteristics of the French model were a beautifully rounded bow, by no means sharp along the water-line, easy sectional lines developing into a full, powerful forebody and midship section, and great dead rise at half floor. The greatest breadth was well forward of amidships and at the waterline, with a slight, gracefully rounded tumble home to the plank-sheer. The after-body was finely moulded, clean, sharp, and long, with a powerful transom and quarters. The time-honored cod's head and mackerel's tail: the figureheads and ornamentation of the quarters and stern, were veritable works of art.

   1911, Arthur Hamilton Clark, The Clipper Ship Era 1843-1869, Chapter 1

present singular third person tumbles home · participle present tumbling home · participle past tumbled home · past tumbled home

1. nauticalTo incline inward, as the sides of a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth.

   Synonyms: tumble in