tumblehome

See also: tumble home

English

The French battleship Jauréguiberry, showing its pronounced tumblehome.

tumblehome (plural tumblehomes)

(nautical) The inward curve of the topsides of some ship hulls; the term was also used for rolling stock on railways in Britain.
- 1961 August, “The English Electric Type 5 3,300 h.p. "Deltic" diesels for British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 468:
  The bodysides have a gentle tumblehome, which gives the machine impressive solidarity of appearance, well set off by the new B.R. standard livery of light-skirted green.
- 2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the ^[sic] [that] launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 46:
  Like the Pullmans, however, there would be a familiar curving tumblehome and cant rail, and a similar white window surround […] .

inward sloping topside of a ship hull

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