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Berthed

Berth \Berth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Berthed; p. pr. & vb. n. Berthing.]

  1. 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.

  2. To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company.
    --Totten.

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berthed

vb. (en-past of: berth)

Usage examples of "berthed".

Petti-grew pushed off an urgent, top priority spacegram to his fellow Committeemen as soon as we berthed - and then, flashing his identification, demanded an audience with the Planetary Manager and dropped him a few hints.

The sky was overcast, as usual, and the thin drizzle that drifted between the low spaceport buildings and the wet, gleaming hulls of the berthed ships made the day seem far colder than it actually was.

The Hallicheki are milling around like a mob of wet hens, an' that auld biddie of an Ambassadress has practically been layin' eggs on my doorstep ever since ye berthed.

In fact you must have noticed those Hallicheki ships berthed not far from you at the spaceport - three merchantmen and a couple of corvettes wearing the colors of the Kokrel Federation, as they call themselves.

Petti grew pushed off an urgent, top priority spacegram to his fellow Committeemen as soon as we berthed - and then, flashing his identification, demanded an audience with the Planetary Manager and dropped him a few hints.

But he'll see the Black Shrike now, he can't help seeing it from where he's berthed at the end of the pier.

The barge was berthed alongside its inner wall and the unloading of the cargo was already busily under way.

Even so, Petersen told Edvard to stop two hundred metres short of where the Colombo was berthed, left the cab, went round to the back, called Lorraine's name and helped her down.

Serian ships with square bows and slatted sails were berthed end to end with catamarans from Dalopo, bulbous grain haulers from Omifal, and small craft carrying wine or citrus fruit or metalwork from a dozen islands, some too small to have names to any but their own citizens.

Or they berthed at "sea islands"-networks of pipes on stilts, well out to sea-from which their oil could be pumped ashore.

He conned the skimmer around in a wide are, got his bearings on the spaceport and the ranked colossi of the berthed barges, and hotted off that way.

Trigger was suspiciously studying a traffic control note stating that a Devagas missionary ship had checked in and berthed at the spaceport when the GC Center's management called in to report, with some nervousness, that the Center's much advertised meteor-repellent roof had just flipped several dozen tons of falling Moon Belt material into the spaceport area.

The Salty Sue, the only big vessel berthed close to the Man's, had, like those smaller ghost ships, survived surprisingly well.

About half of them were from Earththey must be, thought Grimes, from the TG Clipper Cutty Sark presently berthed at the spaceport.