Definitions

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  • noun The side of a berth (mooring-point for a ship etc.).

Etymologies

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berth +‎ side

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Examples

  • Even the entire contents of the Sea-witch's tank would not have filled a quarter of the supertanker's carrying capacity, and the possibility of a supertanker running at a loss, however small, would have been the source of waking nightmares for the North Hudson: equally importantly, the more isolated ports which Lord Worth favored for the delivery of his oil were unable to offer deep-water berthside facilities for anything in excess of fifty thousand tons.

    Seawitch MacLean, Alistair 1977

  • There was one man, of maybe forty, that would sit on my berthside for hours and tell me of his wife and child.

    Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

  • There was one man, of maybe forty, that would sit on my berthside for hours and tell me of his wife and child.

    Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • Bear in mind VSEL had already turned their back on surface shipbuilding in the past & demolished their berthside cranes instead of mothballing them.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

  • Bear in mind VSEL had already turned their back on surface shipbuilding in the past & demolished their berthside cranes instead of mothballing them.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

  • Bear in mind VSEL had already turned their back on surface shipbuilding in the past & demolished their berthside cranes instead of mothballing them.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

  • Sharp cuts in military spending left many Russian warships rusting berthside and forced the navy to scrap dozens of comparatively modern vessels.

    - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community 2008

  • berthside, pink blooms, giant Medusa sporing, five-hundred million cloud creatures teasing brainlessly in the pelagic.

    Unfathomable Mammals Marc Vincenz 2011

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