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Berth   /bərθ/   Listen
Berth

noun
(Also written birth)
1.
A job in an organization.  Synonyms: billet, office, place, position, post, situation, spot.
2.
A place where a craft can be made fast.  Synonyms: moorage, mooring, slip.
3.
A bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers.  Synonyms: built in bed, bunk.
verb
(past & past part. berthed; pres. part. berthing)
1.
Provide with a berth.
2.
Secure in or as if in a berth or dock.  Synonyms: moor, tie up.
3.
Come into or dock at a wharf.  Synonyms: moor, wharf.



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"Berth" Quotes from Famous Books



... profession as a seaman; the captain was pleased with his appearance, and as Philip not only agreed to receive no wages during the voyage, but to pay a premium as an apprentice learning his duty, he was promised a berth on board as the second mate, to mess in the cabin; and he was told that he should be informed whenever the vessel was to sail. Philip having now done all that he could in obedience to his vow, determined ...
— The Phantom Ship • Captain Frederick Marryat

... I have made this sufficiently plain, and that what I have said will enable you to go well round the violin back, guarding the corners, always greasing your saw as you prepare to round them, rather giving them a wide berth than brushing close past, almost touching the line, in a hurry, when snap may go your steel or ...
— Violin Making - 'The Strad' Library, No. IX. • Walter H. Mayson

... several doors of traps that were set for Jack, but Jack did not happen to be in any of them. They were all such miserable places that really, Jack, if I were you, I would give them a wider berth. In every trap, somebody was sitting over a fire, waiting for Jack. Now, it was a crouching old woman, like the picture of the Norwood Gipsy in the old sixpenny dream-books; now, it was a crimp of the male sex, in a checked shirt and without a coat, reading a newspaper; now, it was a man crimp ...
— The Uncommercial Traveller • Charles Dickens

... Martin, giving me a slap on the shoulder the day I joined the ship, "come below, and I'll show you your berth. You and I are to be messmates, and I think we shall be good friends, for I like ...
— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne

... on a voyage you can't walk off th' ship whenever you want to, you know, to get a berth, and some grub. I mean something to eat and a place to sleep," he quickly translated. "You has to stay right on board until the ...
— The Moving Picture Girls at Sea - or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real • Laura Lee Hope


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