What is "sick berth"

Sick \Sick\, a. [Compar. Sicker; superl. Sickest.] [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. se['o]c; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj?kr, Sw. sjuk, Dan. syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.]

1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.

   Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever.
   --Mark i. 30.

   Behold them that are sick with famine.
   --Jer. xiv. 18.

2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.

3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery.

   He was not so sick of his master as of his work.
   --L'Estrange.

4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.

   So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings.
   --Fuller.

   Sick bay (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital.

   Sick bed, the bed upon which a person lies sick.

   Sick berth, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war.

   Sick headache (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea.

   Sick list, a list containing the names of the sick.

   Sick room, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness.

   Note: [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.]

   Syn: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.

n. (nautical) a room for the treatment of the sick or injured (as on a ship) [syn: sickbay]