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hatchway|ˈhætʃweɪ|
Also 7 hatches way.
[f. hatch n.1 + way.]
1. Naut. A square or oblong opening in the deck of a ship down which cargo is lowered into the hold; also forming a passage from one deck to another. Qualified, as after-hatchway, fore-hatchway, main-hatchway.
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 11 The hatches, the hatches way, the holes in the commings. 1627― Seaman's Gram. ii. 7 The Hatches way is..where the goods are lowered that way right downe into the howle. 1745P. Thomas Jrnl. Anson's Voy. 137 On the Larboard Side, a-breast the main Hatch-way. 1833Marryat P. Simple vi, The sentry standing by me with his lantern over the coombings of the hatchway. 1836― Midsh. Easy xii, Kicking Mr. Easthupp..down the after-lower-deck hatchway.
†2. An opening in a weir or sluice: cf. hatch n.1 6. Obs.
1705Act 4 & 5 Anne c. 8 Preamb., Preventing the..Fish to pass..through their Fishing Wyres and Fishing Hatchways from the Sea into the said Rivers.
3. An opening in a floor, etc. which may be closed with a hatch or trap-door. (Applied by Scott to the sliding door of a box-bed.)
1814Scott Wav. xxxvii, Waverley had repeatedly drawn open, and they had as frequently shut, the hatchway of his cage. 1825Beverley Lighting Act ii. 19 Leave open..the door, hatchway or flap-window.
4. Comb., as hatchway-netting, hatchway-screen.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Hatchway nettings, nettings sometimes placed over the hatchways instead of gratings, for security and circulation of air. Hatchway-screens, pieces of fear-nought, or thick woollen cloth, put round the hatchways of a man-of-war in time of action, to screen the passages to the magazine. |