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noun

Berth n. (Also written birth)

(Naut.)

(a)

Convenient sea room.

(b)

A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.

(c)

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."

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.

To give (the land or any object) a wide berth, to keep at a distance from it.

verb

Berth v. t. (past & past part. berthed; pres. part. 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.

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"Berth" Quotes from Famous Books

... was presently withdrawn from her perilous berth next to the British left approach, as she was the only frigate left which seemed to have a chance of running the gauntlet of Boscawen's fleet. Her shot-holes were carefully stopped; and on the night of July 14, she was silently towed to the harbour mouth, whence she sailed for ...

— The Great Fortress - A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 • William Wood

... look of the place, ships are likely to give this a wide berth," observed Dick. "However, we can manage to live here pretty comfortably, and may be some day or other we shall get off again, but how, is ...

— Charley Laurel - A Story of Adventure by Sea and Land • W. H. G. Kingston

... little time longer. Then the king went back to his hut, refusing, as Mr. Durban said, an invitation to come aboard and see how a modern airship was constructed. The natives, too, seemed anxious to give the craft a wide berth. ...

— Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle • Victor Appleton

... find no ground for our camp with a shrub to shelter man or beast. All are swept away to form gun-carriages for the Gwalior artillery, with a philosophical disregard to the comforts of the living, the repose of the dead who planted them with a view to a comfortable berth in the next world, and to the will of the gods to whom they are dedicated. There is nothing left upon the land of animal or vegetable life to enrich it; nothing of stock but what is necessary to draw from the soil an annual crop, and which looks to one harvest for its entire return. ...

— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

... begun to dislike intensely, and he had been manoeuvring ever since Honolulu to find a legitimate excuse to give the man his papers. Something about the fellow suggested covert insolence; he had the air of a beachcomber who had unexpectedly fallen into a soft berth, and it had gone to his head. He had been standing watch at the ladder head, and against positive orders he had permitted a visitor to pass him. To Cleigh this was the handle he had been hunting for. ...

— The Pagan Madonna • Harold MacGrath

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