Word Meanings - BERTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. 2. An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. "He has a good berth."

Additional info about word: BERTH

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. 2. An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. "He has a good berth." Totten. 3. 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 a wide berth, to keep at a distance from it.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BERTH)

• Abode
• Home
• stay
• placate
• residence
• domicile
• habitation
• lodging
• berth
• quarters
• Apartment
• Room
• chamber
• hall
• Receptacle
• Repository
• lodgment
• recipient
• magazine
• store
• case

Related words: (words related to BERTH)

• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• BERTH
  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. 2. An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. "He has a good berth."
• CHAMBERING
  Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
• MAGAZINE CAMERA
  A camera in which a number of plates can be exposed without reloading.
• CHAMBERER
  1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
• LODGMENT
  The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment. (more info) 1. The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged. Any particle which is of size enough to
• CHAMBERED
  Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
• BERTHA
  A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.
• STORED
  Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity. It is charged with stored virtue. Bagehot.
• APARTMENT HOUSE
  A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.
• LODGEABLE
  1. That may be or can be lodged; as, so many persons are not lodgeable in this village. 2. Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in. " The lodgeable area of the earth." Jeffrey.
• LODGING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, lodges. 2. A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning. Gower. Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow. Pope. 3. Abiding place; harbor;
• CHAMBERMAID
  1. A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc. 2. A lady's maid. Johnson.
• DOMICILE
  A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode. Wharton. (more info) 1. An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or
• REPOSITORY
  A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository. Locke.
• MAGAZINE
  almagacen; all fr. Ar. makhzan, almakhzan, a storehouse, granary, or 1. A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc. "Armories and magazines." Milton. 2. The building or room in which
• RECEPTACLE
  1. That which serves, or is used, fro receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository. O sacred receptacle of my joys! Shak. The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into
• BERTHAGE
  A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.
• APARTMENT
  appartare to separate, set apart; all fr. L. ad + pars, partis, part. 1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding. 2. A set or suite of rooms. De Quincey. 3. A compartment. Pope.
• STOREY
  See STORY
• UNLODGE
  To dislodge; to deprive of lodgment. Carew.
• STAR-CHAMBER
  An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed
• INCHAMBER
  To lodge in a chamber. Sherwood.
• INHABITATION
  1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost. Bp. Pearson. 2. Abode; place of dwelling; residence. Milton. 3. Population; inhabitants. Sir T. Browne. The beginning of nations and
• COMBUSTION CHAMBER
  A space over, or in front of , a boiler furnace where the gases from the fire become more thoroughly mixed and burnt. The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is compressed and ignited.
• RESTORE
  To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover. "To restore and to build Jerusalem." Dan. ix. 25. Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. And