What does "berth" mean?
Berth: An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. "He has a good berth." Totten.
Additional senses
- 2.A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in. Berth deck, the deck next below the lower gun deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- To give (the land or any object) a wide berth, to keep at a distance from it.
- 3.To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.
- 4.To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company. Totten.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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