Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A raised rim or border around an opening, as on a ship's deck, designed to keep out water.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, one of the raised borders or edges of the hatches, designed to prevent water on deck from running below.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical On a
boat , the vertical side of above-deck structures, such as thecoach roof ,hatch , andcockpit . - noun A raised frame, designed to deflect or prevent entry of water, around an opening (e.g., a hatch or skylight) in a flat surface, such as a roof or deck.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a raised framework around a hatchway on a ship to keep water out
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Inside the tent was a flat hatch raised on a coaming a few inches above the floor.
Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009
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Inside the tent was a flat hatch raised on a coaming a few inches above the floor.
Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009
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Mah frend haz kitteh dhat askz fur habin brushing and coaming.
Do not get wet…. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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One of the guards pulled the hatch door open, and Adama stepped over the lip of the coaming and into the room President Roslin and her aide had set up as a temporary office.
Battlestar Galactica Carver_Jeffrey 2006
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But I leaned far over to my left and stuck my head over the coaming and banked the Pitts a little to port and then I saw what was going on.
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As John Paul retreated, he could feel his heel strike the coaming, or edge, of a hatchway.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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The grenade glanced off the coaming around the hatch and tumbled below.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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As John Paul retreated, he could feel his heel strike the coaming, or edge, of a hatchway.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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The grenade glanced off the coaming around the hatch and tumbled below.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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Despite the closed hatches and the raised coaming of the hatch to the captain's quarters, a thin sheet of gray-blue water poured across the wooden deck of the captain's cabin. the Silberwelle continued to ride through a series of maneuvers, combining a slight tendency to corkscrew with irregular pitching of decreasing intensity.
The Shadow Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 2001
chained_bear commented on the word coaming
"'...I am quite dry; and was you to put your nose above the coaming and look at the dog-vane, you would see why.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Truelove, 209
March 11, 2008
yarb commented on the word coaming
The cargo chains groaned in the gins, clinked on coamings, rattled over the side; and the whole ship quivered, with her long gray flanks smoking in wreaths of steam.
- Conrad, Typhoon
March 26, 2008
reesetee commented on the word coaming
A raised rim of vertical plating around a hatchway to prevent the entrance of water, the upper edge of which forms a seal with the hatch-lid or cover.
August 25, 2009