tumble home
intransitive verbDefinition of tumble home
(Entry 1 of 2)
: to incline inward above the waterline or greatest breadth : fall home — compare batter entry 3
—used chiefly of the sides of a ship
tumble home
nounDefinition of tumble home (Entry 2 of 2)
: a receding upward slope (as of a ship's sides) : an inclination inward from the greatest breadth
as in all ships of the period, her sides have considerable tumble home— H. G. Smith the tumble home of a building toward the top