Bottomry is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 130 anagrams from letters in bottomry (bmoortty).
1615-25; modeled on Dutch bodemerij, equivalent to bodem bottom + -erij -ry
The bottomry contract in Denmark, Sweden, and the north of Germany.
Money advanced on bottomry is not liable in England for general average losses.
Would you have men oratorical over a bottomry bond, Demosthenic about an action of trespass on the case, or a rule to compute?
The rate of interest was high, usually 12%; and in trading and bottomry the returns were much higher.
Loans of this character have ever since been common in maritime lands, under the name of bottomry and respondentia bonds.
A bottomry bond gives no remedy to the lenders against the owners of the ship or cargo personally.
Amongst these in all cases are found claims for salvage, wages, bottomry under certain restrictions, and necessaries.
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