Hatchway

Word HATCHWAY
Character 8
Hyphenation hatch way
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Hatchway"

What do we mean by hatchway?

A passage or opening leading to a hold, compartment, or cellar. noun

A ladder or stairway within a hatchway. noun

A square or oblong opening in the deck of a ship, affording a passage from one deck to another, or into the hold or lower apartments. See hatch, n., 3. noun

The opening of any trapdoor, as in a floor, ceiling, or roof. noun

A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar. noun

A means of passing through a wall or floor, having a hatch (especially on a ship); a doorway with a hatch rather than a door noun

An entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship noun

A means of passing through a wall or floor, having a hatch (especially on a ship); a doorway with a hatch rather than a door.

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The word "hatchway" in example sentences

"See if the hatchway is down, and show her where to put her clothes." ❋ Unknown (1887)

Near the center of the kiva two short timbers are laid across the two main beams about 5 feet apart; this is done to preserve a space of 5 by 7 feet for the hatchway, which is made with walls of stone laid in mud plaster, resting upon the two central beams and upon the two side pieces. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)

To drop through the hatchway was the work of an instant, when I at once saw what was the matter. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

Pushing upward through the hatchway was a smooth, square column of cat. ❋ Ambrose Bierce (1878)

Abaft the hatchway was a door on the starboard side which I opened, and found a narrow dark passage. ❋ Unknown (1877)

"Over the hatchway was a wheel by which the food of the convicts was lowered into the hold at morning, noon, and night; at other times it was used for raising in an iron cage, from the lower decks, convicts who were allowed exercise, but the weight of whose irons prevented their ascending by the companionways. ❋ Thomas Wallace Knox (1865)

The cook stuck his head out of the galley door and grinned encouragingly at me, at the same time jerking his thumb in the direction of the man who paced up and down by the hatchway. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He lowered the glasses through which he was scanning the sea and pointed down the hatchway that opened into the big after-room beneath. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I would enter the cabin through a waterproof Plexiglas hatchway that was nineteen inches square. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The 20-minute tour, which documents the full 167 feet of the space station's pressurized modules, was recorded by NASA Flight Engineer Michael Barratt to show Mission Control how equipment and supplies are arranged and stored, and to provide engineers with a detailed assessment of each module-to-module hatchway. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At three o'clock, while the Ancient Mariner supposedly drowned in his room, and while Captain Doane, Grimshaw, and half the watch on deck clustered at the mast-heads to try to raise the Lion's Head from out the sapphire sea, Dag Daughtry dropped down the ladder of the open hatchway into the main hold. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Barratts 'commentary describes to Mission Control in Houston how equipment and supplies are arranged and stored, and provides engineers with a detailed assessment of each module-to-module hatchway. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the first things is how the door between worlds isn't a standard door, as in the book, but a short hatchway of a door. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I had stepped underneath the open hatchway so that I could see him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Each hatchway gaped wide open, and from the lower depths the shrieking donkey-engines were hurrying the misassorted outfits skyward. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Alerted by the commotion, Klaus stood by the bed and Marlowe watched from the hatchway, as mother assisted daughter in the basic ritual of child birth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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