Word Finder - berths

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A fixed bunk for sleeping (in caravans, trains, etc).

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Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.)

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A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park.

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A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.

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A job or position, especially on a ship.

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Position or seed in a tournament bracket.

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Position on the field of play

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To bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth

In 1902 it afforded 10 alongside berths for shipping.

And Doncaster will also be weakened without the Hunts, both of whom usually occupy the central midfield berths.

In addition, there are direct rail connections to the deep-water berths in King George Dock.

Landowners will often offer moorings for a small charge, and in addition to these overnight berths are available at most marinas.

In the evening you will board the train for the overnight journey to Surat Thani, with second-class air-conditioned sleeping berths provided.

As well as 235 pontoon berths, there are 110 swinging moorings with a water taxi service.

Over 11,000 new marina berths are likely to be needed over the next decade to meet a shortage of inland waterway moorings.

There are a straight run of 4 berths and a further 14 berths on attached finger pontoons.

Sleeping berths can be booked on the overnight sailing.

A good sized wardrobe is provided along with additional stowage within the berths.

New berths and quays were constructed specifically for the unloading of container ships, and also a rail container terminal.

With dozens of ships sailing through a wide range of itineraries, there are tens of thousands of passenger berths available on Carnival ships every week.

The cabin includes a queen-sized bed, two twin beds, and two pull-down upper berths.

As noted, the ship has room for up to 4,300 passengers, due to its 855 cabins with space for third and fourth berths.

On the continent of Europe the typical sleeping car has transverse compartments with two berths, one placed above the other.

This is protected by Fort William and Fort George, as well as by the citadel (Fort Adelaide), and it has three graving-docks connected with the inner harbour, the depths alongside quays and berths being from 12 to 28 ft.

The larger passenger steamers of the Rotterdamsche Lloyd to Netherlands India and of the Holland-American Steamship Company (the two principal passenger and cargo steamship companies at Rotterdam) have their berths on the south side of the river.

In the most approved type at the present time a passage runs along one side of the car, and off it open a number of transverse compartments or berths resembling ships' cabins, mostly for one person only, and each having a lavatory of its own with cold, and sometimes hot, water laid on.

The galleries are not the way of access to the cemeteries, but are themselves the cemeteries, the dead being buried in long low horizontal recesses, excavated in the vertical walls of the passages, rising tier above tier like the berths in a ship, from a few inches above the floor to the springing of the arched ceiling, to the number of five, six or even sometimes twelve ranges.

In the United States the standard sleeping car has a central alley, and along the sides are two tiers of berths, arranged lengthwise with the car and screened off from the alley by curtains.