Associations to the word «Bottomry»

Wiktionary

BOTTOMRY, noun. (nautical) An early form of maritime contract in which owner of a ship could borrow money using the ship as collateral.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne