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.''
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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.
Usage examples of "to give".
But in the inevitable pressure cooker of rough times, particularly in start-up, it was clear that something had to give.
Posters exhorting workers to give their all for war production often depicted a woman in denim overalls and bandana, wielding a rivet gun like an expert.
It is the center of our consciousness and serves to give us a sense of purpose.
As soon as the first rage of hunger was appeased, I overwhelmed him with questions, to which he now no longer hesitated to give answers.
The number of people I employ to get a project finished reaches into the thousands, and those people would not have a building to work on without a developer to give them a job.
There weren't any trophies to give, any more than there were Nobel Prizes for Shakespeare for Hamlet, or for Mark Twain for Huckleberry Finn.
But if I am called on to explain how he came to this place, how these various strata by which he is covered have fallen into this vast cavity, I can undertake to give you no explanation.
His telescope is raised every moment to his eyes, and when he finds nothing to give any clue to our whereabouts, he assumes a Napoleonic attitude and walks anxiously.
They should surround themselves with people who are not too timid to give their independent views and opinions, people who are open and candid, not a bunch of yes people who agree with everything the leader says.
It had the startling irregularity of continuous lightning, but it possessed this further peculiarity - that it seemed somehow to give out not actual light, but emotion, seen as light.
Germany ordered its U-boats to give passenger ships ample warning before firing upon them.
He'd had little personal contact with Yulour, indeed, with any of the porters, preferring to give them their instructions through Tyl.