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Circular or conical metal plates attached to a ship's berthing hawsers (mooring lines) to prevent rats getting aboard. In some cases they also prevent sailors from sneaking ashore by climbing down the hawsers.
Sleeping berths suspended from the overhead in a torpedo room in older submarines.
A ship berthed alongside in harbour, and used primarily to train young sailors.
The alternate name for the number one berthing hawser at the bow of the ship. Unique in how it is sometimes used as a legendary method for covertly coming and going from the ship. eg. "Bloggins is missing. I wonder if he climbed down the head rope."
Two or more ships berthed together, one outboard of the other.
a place as seal-hunter on a vessel with a share in the profits of the voyage
Gay nickname for any tall, heavy-set man, especially if effeminate. [Tomorrow is Big Bertha's birthday, I'm going to buy him the paperboy.]
A berthing hawser running from the ship to the jetty in either the forward, or the aft direction. Its role is to prevent movement of the vessel fore and aft.
On a siding. (See hole.) Also in the lower berth of a Pullman, as contrasted with on the tot, in the upper berth
To leave the berth and sail away. eg. "The ship slipped at 0800".
Clutching two parallel lines together in your hands and pressing them together, using the friction between the lines to hold them fast. When the ship's berthing hawsers are doubled-up, the second hawser is "married" to the first while a seaman takes turns on the bollard.
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n.
One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.
n.
A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.
v. t.
To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company.
n.
A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.
a.
Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the part or side toward which the wind blows; -- opposed to windward; as, a leeward berth; a leeward ship.
n.
A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
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v. t.
To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.
n.
See Berth.
n.
A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.
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n.
The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake.
n.
A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.
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The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.
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A Brazilian name for the lofty myrtaceous tree (Bertholetia excelsa) which produces the large seeds known as Brazil nuts.
n.
Convenient sea room.
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An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment.
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