The Collaborative International Dictionary
Berthing \Berth"ing\, n. (Naut.)
The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake.
--Smyth.
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete nautical English) The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake. 2 (context nautical English) An instance of a ship being brought to rest at some docking facility. 3 A berth, especially figuratively, a place to sleep. vb. (present participle of berth English)
Usage examples of "berthing".
He'd seen entirely too many berthing bays since joining the Navy, but at least he shouldn't have to put up with this one for long.
Any force the size of the RMN had to have its share of thieves and bullies and God alone knew what else, and his heart sank as he realized the other men in this berthing bay were among the worst the Navy had to offer.
He blinked, trying to make his blurry vision focus, and recognized the short, stocky sick berth attendant from that first afternoon in the berthing bay aboard Vulcan.
Often, Drake had learned, there was a berthing delay in this, the most congested of the Soviet Union’s warm-water ports.
After eating he decided to work the night away on a final run-through of the channel charts for the morning’s berthing.
Prior to that, he knew, a gang of ten men from ashore, the extra hands, called “riggers,” who were needed for the berthing operation, would arrive by launch at 0700.
The slightest mistake--a wrench dropped on the deck in engineering, a piece of gear adrift in a berthing compartment, or a loose pan in the galley--would give away their presence to the listening Russians, calling down upon the American submarine a fusillade of deadly mine and torpedo fire.
He'd long ago decided that sex was not only a distraction aboard ship, it was a definite threat, Especially aboard a submarine, where a man's only privacy was the curtain he could draw to wall off his rack from the eight others stacked three-high in his tiny berthing compartment.
Last night, one of my men, Boatswain's Mate First Class Motely, was making his rounds in the enlisted berthing compartments when he noticed two men, PH2 Margolis and one other, looking at something and acting in what he considered to be a suspicious manner.
She lay facedown on a blocky du-racrete protrusion, staring off into the ship berthing area of the killing field, and watched the mechanics working on the Record Time.
But pods containing goods bound for destinations other than Coruscant or other Core worlds were directed to berthing bays in zones one or two, regardless of when they were brought aboard.
Labor droids of several varieties continued to route a few pods to berthing spaces.
Most of the volume of the Annie, as well as her mass, was devoted to the massive power works she needed to grapple and move disabled starships, so all ships' functions except engineering, berthing, and galley were crammed into the bridge.
The Essay docked in the starship's welldeck and was locked down, and its crew headed for their berthing compartment.
I say again, all hands not at duty stations, retire at once to your berthing spaces and prepare to secure for maneuvers.