Crossword clues for berth
berth
- Train sleeper
- Train bed
- Sloop slip
- Sailor's bed
- Pullman accommodation
- Anchoring place
- Where one sleeps on a train
- Where an engineer may retire
- Train's sleeping space
- Train bunk
- Tourney position
- Tournament slot
- Thing on many trains
- Tar bed
- Swell place to sleep?
- Spot to drop off on a ship
- Space in a sleeper car
- Slip's kin
- Sleeping car assignment
- Sleeper-car slot
- Sleeper-car assignment
- Ship's parking place
- Ship's mooring
- Shelflike bed on a boat
- Sea room
- Pullman sleeper
- Pullman place
- Pullman compartment
- Playoff spot, say
- Playoff spot
- Place to sleep on a ship
- Place to sleep in a railroad car
- Place on a wharf
- Pier space
- Ocean bed?
- Marina offering
- Kin of a slip
- Distance maintained between vessels
- Cruise ships' docking place
- Bed on a train
- Bed in a train's sleeping car
- Accommodation on a ship
- A job, in Britain
- "Upper" or "lower" train bed
- Sleeping place on a train
- Place in a Pullman
- Train's crashing place
- Train crash site?
- Slip for a ship
- Moorage
- Ship's resting place
- Train sleeping spot
- Ship slip
- Salt sack?
- A place where a craft can be made fast
- A bed on a ship or train
- A job in an organization
- Usually in tiers
- Job; position
- Pullman convenience
- Nautical home
- Resting place
- Position
- Wharf space for a liner
- Anchorage
- Place to sleep on the go
- Ship's slip
- Ship's parking space
- Pullman bed
- Give a wide ___ to
- Some slumber therein
- Bunk in a ship
- Bunk on ship or train
- Bed woman, having had bottom pinched
- Docking spot
- Docking place
- Parking space
- Bed on board
- Marina space
- Docking space
- Bed on a boat
- Pullman feature
- Sleeping car feature
- Ship bunk
- Sea bed?
- Place to crash on a train?
- A place to sleep
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Berth \Berth\ (b[~e]rth), n. [From the root of bear to produce, like birth nativity. See Birth.] [Also written birth.]
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(Naut.)
Convenient sea room.
A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.
An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. ``He has a good berth.''
--Totten.-
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.
Berth deck, the deck next below the lower gun deck.
--Ham. Nav. Encyc.To give (the land or any object) a wide berth, to keep at a distance from it.
Berth \Berth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Berthed; p. pr. & vb. n. Berthing.]
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.
To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company.
--Totten.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "convenient sea room" (both for ships and sailors), of uncertain origin, probably from bear (v.) + abstract noun suffix -th (2) as in strength, health, etc. Original sense is preserved in phrase to give (something or someone) wide berth. Meaning "place on a ship to stow chests, room for sailors" is from 1706; extended to non-nautical situations by 1778.
1660s, of ships, from berth (n.). Of persons (intransitive), from 1886. Related: Berthed; berthing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A fixed bunk for sleeping in (caravans, trains, etc). 2 room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase ''a wide berth''.) 3 A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park. 4 (context nautical English) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside. 5 A job or position, especially on a ship. 6 (context sports English) position or seed in a tournament bracket. 7 (context sports English) position on the field of play vb. 1 (context transitive English) to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth 2 (context transitive English) to assign a berth (bunk or position) to
WordNet
Wikipedia
Berth is a live CD/DVD by American alternative rock band The Used that was released on February 6, 2007. It has since been certified gold.
A berth is a bed or sleeping accommodation on vehicles. Space accommodations have contributed to certain common design elements of berths.
A berth is a designated location in a port or harbour used for mooring vessels when they are not at sea.
Berth or birthing may refer to:
Usage examples of "berth".
Chief Anareta waited in the night shadow of the Berth for his men to bring the Sugarat in.
When the swayvan with the Sugarat came around the Berth wall and cruised toward the cement modules of the police barracks, Chief Anareta stepped out of the shadows.
Mr Bedo was searching the cabin lest his wife should lie concealed in berth or locker.
And there, after some days jungle-scouting, Blas Ramos picked out a plot, giving wide berth to all privately owned land.
Khiindi mewed weakly and tried to drag himself forward, giving Shoshisha and Marl as wide a berth as possible.
When I met my messmates at supper in the berth, I was sorry to see Murphy among them.
Canal was built in an effort to re-establish the lucrative link with the river trade, as well as four deep lakestwo within the old river bed itselffor moorage and berths.
They took a pedway to the berth itself, sliding past three kilometers of other vessels, most of them Imperial, a few belonging to the Palace upper crust, the rest to licensed traders like Tritch.
It was an important game to both teams, as they fought for a playoff berth, and a tense series of downs.
She knew he was preoccupied with the upcoming Playoffs, so she had given him a wide berth.
He rattled something at the ship, and the windows were filled with views of nearby berths in the repair harbor.
They were given a standard class berth on the Scher, an inter-orbit passenger ship.
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The shagreen pouch disappeared from sight, and a small book that Colin had lent him on poisonous fishes was placed conspicuously in the center of Colins hateful new berth.
Lycheas had gone around to the other side of the table, giving Sparhawk a wide berth.