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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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Etymology of 'Berth'

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"Berth" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Slavonia's last night at sea. In another twelve hours the pilot would be aboard, Quarantine would be passed, the engines would be slowed down, and the great steamer would be lying at her berth in the North River, discharging her little world of life into the scattered corners of a waiting continent. Already, on the green baize bulletin-board in the companionway the purser had posted the customary notice to the effect that the steamer's operator was ...

— Phantom Wires - A Novel • Arthur Stringer

... homesick man who ever lived," he responded sadly. "If I only pass a night in a sleeping-car, I hate to leave my berth." ...

— McClure's Magazine, January, 1896, Vol. VI. No. 2 • Various

... fruit and a grieved feeling in the region of our hearts. It may not be amiss to remark that I have never eaten a blackberry since. To get to our car it was necessary to pass through another sleeper, where I noticed a made up berth in which was reclining a young woman, and hovering over her solicitously a man, ...

— A Woman Tenderfoot • Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

... varied considerably. Most fled or gave the loaves a wide berth, but some bolder species, discovering the minimal nutritive nature of the translucent brown objects, attacked them furiously with beaks and claws. Hydrogen diffusing slowly through the crusts had now distended most of the sealed plastic wrappers into little balloons, ...

— Bread Overhead • Fritz Reuter Leiber

... stowed in this here bit of a hole, which is all the time as hot as the cooks coppers. Im tired of my berth, dye see, and if-so-be that Leather Stocking has got much overhauling to do before he sails after them said beaver Ill go into dock again, and ride out my quarantine, till I can get prottick from the law, and so hold on upon the rest of ...

— The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper

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