hatchway
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]hatchway (plural hatchways)
- 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.
- 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 22, in Billy Budd[1], London: Constable & Co.:
- Up through the great hatchways rimmed with racks of heavy shot, the watch below came pouring […]
- 1958 January, “New Diesel-Electric Locomotives for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 20:
- Full-depth, hinged doors are provided on each side of the engine and generator housing, and hatchways are fitted in the roof over the engine.
Translations
[edit]doorway with hatch
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