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2 nautical terms (boats, equipment, etc.)

2 [nautical] words
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berth

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Definition:
1. an area for ships to moor, i.e. be secured near the shore when not at sea, as at a dock
2. a job, usually referring to one on a ship
3. a sleeping bunk

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By the light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the forecastle of an emigrant ship.

Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Man with the Twisted Lip
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This post he had received through his sister Anna’s husband, Alexey Alexandrovitch Karenin [...]. But if Karenin had not got his brother-in-law this berth, then through a hundred other personages—brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, and aunts—Stiva Oblonsky would have received this post,

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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an old man doesn’t sooin get used to new barthens. I’d rayther arn my bite an’ my sup wi’ a hammer in th’ road!

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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