Tumble Home

The other man, a slender German of five and twenty, with the massive forehead of a scholar and the tumble-home chin of a degenerate, did not trouble to reply. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Two men lounge under the deck awning: Harrison J. Griffiths, the captain, and Jacobsen, mate, the latter a German of 25 years, "with the massive forehead of a scholar and the tumble-home chin of a degenerate," busy rolling a ball of cigarette paper containing powdered quinine and swallowing it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A hourque or hulk denoted a large ship with a distinctive hull type, designed for maximum cargo volume, broad in the beam, with a rounded bow and stern, a comparatively flat bottom, high sides curved out and then in again, in a pattern that sailors called “tumble-home.” ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

She was a large ship, English built, with a turtle-backed stern, painted white on the tumble-home of the quarter. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The result was a section having very moderate rise of straight floor, carried farther out in proportion to beam than in the _Ohio_, but with rather easy turn of the bilge and moderate tumble-home in the upper topsides. ❋ Howard Irving Chapelle (N/A)

The midsection was formed with moderately short and rising floor, round and easy bilge, and some tumble-home in the topside. ❋ Howard Irving Chapelle (N/A)

The Snark was forty-three feet on the water-line and fifty-five over all, with fifteen feet beam (tumble-home sides) and seven feet eight inches draught. ❋ Unknown (1913)

Then, about the tumble-home, I don't see the use o 'it. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

The under-water shape of her is different, her topsides have scarcely any tumble-home, and she has not nearly so much sheer as usual. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

Ay, nor is that all I will say in her favour; she is throughout neatly and lightly sparred, and has no more of a wall-side than the walls of yonder church tumble-home. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

" He watched the men gingerly descend the tumble-home to step into the rocking boats. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1987)