Coamings

Each of these hatch-ways, or orifices, had the usual defences of "coamings," strong frame-work around their margins. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

That our good old-fashioned mode of spelling should receive the modern improvements was perhaps unavoidable, but surely we never spelt "coamings" (of ❋ Unknown (1830)

The passageways were blocked off at regular intervals by bulkheads and huge metal hatches with rims, or coamings, that one had to step over to get from compartment to compartment. ❋ Carver_Jeffrey (2006)

All metal objects such as stacks, winches, masts, coamings, engine blocks, stoves, appliances and stays are securely grounded to these copper rods so that built-up current can flow to the zincs. ❋ Unknown (1983)

Hrrula carefully got into the skiff, looked at the far side, felt on the coamings and then spread his hands wide, questioningly. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1969)

One hot summer afternoon, when the _Saucy Sally_ was taking in cargo and the Skipper was ashore, Mr. Topper, seated on the coamings of the hatchway, abandoned himself to the melancholy pleasures of Haydn's ❋ Various (N/A)

"Like as not they've left off the hatch coamings." ❋ Joseph Hergesheimer (1917)

Blood returned to the Colonel, who, under guard and panic-stricken, had dejectedly resumed his seat on the coamings of the main batch. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

Seated on the hatch-coamings, the Somersetshire lad gratefully filled his lungs with the cool night air, and professed himself revived thereby. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

Such was the comprehension and despatch with which he gave his commands that the captain returned from divine worship to find the Maria in profane hands, her immaculate deck littered with straw and sawdust, and covered to the coamings with bottles and cases. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)

All hands were turned out; two Kanakas were sent below, another stationed at a purchase; and Davis, axe in hand, took his place beside the coamings. ❋ Lloyd Osbourne (1907)

The cargo chains groaned in the gins, clinked on coamings, rattled over the side; and the whole ship quivered, with her long gray flanks smoking in wreaths of steam. ❋ Unknown (1902)

One looks down over the coamings three hundred feet to the despatching-caisson whence voices boom upward. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

Over the coamings of the fore-hatch black water was bubbling. ❋ Holman Day (1900)

I peer from the fore end of the engine-room over the hatch-coamings into the coach. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

The pinnace, the water barrels, the coamings of the cargo hatches, were smashed to fragments as the gun turned this way and that and went plunging in search of victims. ❋ Ralph Delahaye Paine (1898)

Later in the day, after supper, in the second dog-watch, as I sat smoking on the fore-coamings, he came up to me and spoke to me. ❋ Various (1897)

The next instant she was in the trough, her lee-rail buried till the ocean was level with her hatch-coamings, sea after sea breaking over her weather rail and sweeping what remained exposed of the deck with icy deluges. ❋ Jack London (1896)

Joe: yo steve look at the coaming over there. steve: yeah [thats nasty], hes giving himself a facial. [ogre] [mage]#1: im coaming deeply please get out of the room guys, i need to releaase it on the doornoob. ogre mage #2: mmmmmmm babe that turns me on ogre mage#1: oohh i wont be coaming for long.(licks lips slowly and tastes the facial hes given himself earlier.) ❋ IAMNOTCAMILLE (2011)