Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A passage or opening leading to a hold, compartment, or cellar.
- noun A ladder or stairway within a hatchway.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A square or oblong opening in the deck of a ship, affording a passage from one deck to another, or into the hold or lower apartments. See
hatch , n., 3. - noun The opening of any trapdoor, as in a floor, ceiling, or roof.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A means of passing through a wall or floor, having a
hatch (especially on a ship); adoorway with a hatch rather than a door
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
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Examples
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"See if the hatchway is down, and show her where to put her clothes."
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Near the center of the kiva two short timbers are laid across the two main beams about 5 feet apart; this is done to preserve a space of 5 by 7 feet for the hatchway, which is made with walls of stone laid in mud plaster, resting upon the two central beams and upon the two side pieces.
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To drop through the hatchway was the work of an instant, when I at once saw what was the matter.
The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" Harry Collingwood 1886
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Pushing upward through the hatchway was a smooth, square column of cat.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878
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Abaft the hatchway was a door on the starboard side which I opened, and found a narrow dark passage.
The Frozen Pirate 1877
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Near the center of the kiva two short timbers are laid across the two main beams about 5 feet apart; this is done to preserve a space of 5 by 7 feet for the hatchway, which is made with walls of stone laid in mud plaster, resting upon the two central beams and upon the two side pieces.
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"Over the hatchway was a wheel by which the food of the convicts was lowered into the hold at morning, noon, and night; at other times it was used for raising in an iron cage, from the lower decks, convicts who were allowed exercise, but the weight of whose irons prevented their ascending by the companionways.
The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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I would enter the cabin through a waterproof Plexiglas hatchway that was nineteen inches square.
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He lowered the glasses through which he was scanning the sea and pointed down the hatchway that opened into the big after-room beneath.
CHAPTER XVIII 2010
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The 20-minute tour, which documents the full 167 feet of the space station's pressurized modules, was recorded by NASA Flight Engineer Michael Barratt to show Mission Control how equipment and supplies are arranged and stored, and to provide engineers with a detailed assessment of each module-to-module hatchway.
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