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Raised borders that prevent water overflow
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coamings
Word definitions for coamings in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coamings \Coam"ings\, n. pl. [Cf. Comb a crest.] (Naut.) Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of coaming nodot=1 English), especially all sides of a single coach roof, hatch, or cockpit.
Usage examples of coamings.
The dog put himself in a baying attitude, with his fore feet on the coamings of the hatchway, and enforced his master's orders with a deep-toned and measured bow, wow, wow.
The hydraulics barely started to groan, but that instant of anticipation broke the seals before the impact could twist hatches and coamings together immovably.
He suggested, that one half of the cabin table, which was divided in two, should be placed upon the other, so as to raise it up to the coamings of the skylight-hatch.
Such was the comprehension and despatch with which he gave his commands that the captain returned from divine worship to find the Maria in profane hands, her immaculate deck littered with straw and sawdust, and covered to the coamings with bottles and cases.
She kept her eyes on him, saw him glance in at this doorway and that, as some of those shuffling along ahead of him stepped in over the stone coamings to gape at the poor relics of names and miseries scratched in the walls.
So bulky were they and so heavily laden with her own cargo was the galleon that to accommodate their bulk the hatch coamings had to be left off the main holds until the prize was taken into Sir Francis's secret base.