false bottom

1. 1.

   a horizontal structure that partitions a ship or box (especially one built close to the actual bottom)

   Broaderstructure

Questions about false bottom

What does false bottom mean?

false bottom means "a horizontal structure that partitions a ship or box (especially one built close to the actual bottom)".

Is false bottom a common word?

false bottom is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.