Luxurious quarters
"Gingerbread-hatches on shore."
·noun A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A cake made of treacle, flour, and grated ginger; also money. He has the gingerbread; he is rich. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Under the hatches; in trouble, distress, or debt. ...
Flood-gates set in a river to stop the current of water. Also, coverings of grating, or close hatche...
The Sailor's Word-Book
North out of Lamb Alley, Bishopsgate, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746-Elmes, 1831). Some ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Gilding and carving: these terms are particularly applied by seamen on board Newcastle colliers, to ...
Are raised coamings on a steamer's deck, to form coverings for the cranks of the engines below. ...
Profusely carved decorations of a ship. ...
East out of Old Change, in Bread Street Ward, small and ordinary (Strype, ed. 1720-Boyle, 1799). Si...
Securing the tarpaulins over them. (See battens of the hatches.) ...
Long narrow laths, or straightened hoops of casks, serving by the help of nailing to confine the edg...
Certain raised work rather higher than the decks, about the edges of the hatch-openings of a ship, t...