 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
berth
noun
1: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the
treasury" [syn: {position}, {post}, {office}, {spot}, {billet},
{place}, {situation}]
2: a place where a craft can be made fast [syn: {mooring}, {moorage},
{slip}]
3: a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers [syn: {bunk}, {built
in bed}]
verb
1: provide with a berth
2: secure in or as if in a berth or dock; "tie up the boat"
[syn: {moor}, {tie up}]
3: come into or dock at a wharf; "the big ship wharfed in the
evening" [syn: {moor}, {wharf}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Berth \Berth\ (b[~e]rth), noun [From the root of bear to produce,
like birth nativity. See {Birth}.] [Also written {birth}.]
1. (Naut.)
(a) Convenient sea room.
(b) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's
company mess and reside.
(c) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or
at a wharf.
2. An allotted place; an appointment; situation or
employment. ''He has a good berth.'' --Totten.
3. 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Berth \Berth\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Berthed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Berthing}.]
1. 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.
2. To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth
a ship's company. --Totten.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "berth":
abide, accommodations, anchor, anchorage, anchorage ground,
appointment, basin, bed, billet, breakwater, bulkhead, bunk,
cohabit, connection, diggings, digs, dock, dockage, dockyard,
domicile, domiciliate, doss down, dry dock, dwell, embankment,
employment, engagement, gig, groin, hang out, harbor, harborage,
haven, hook, house, housing, incumbency, inhabit, jetty, job,
jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, levee, live,
living quarters, lob, lodge, lodging, lodgings, lodgment, marina,
mole, moonlighting, mooring, mooring buoy, moorings, mudhook, nest,
occupy, office, opening, perch, pier, place, port, position, post,
protected anchorage, put up, quarter, quarters, quay, remain,
reside, road, roads, roadstead, room, rooms, roost, seaport,
seawall, second job, service, shelter, shipyard, situation,
sleeping place, slip, spot, squat, stable, station, stay, tenant,
tenure, vacancy, wharf
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