To secure the hatches; are padlocked and sealed.
·noun A flood gate; a a sluice gate. II. Hatch ·noun A <<Bedstead>>. III. Hatch ·noun Development;...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A half-door. A contrivance for trapping salmon. (See heck.) ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
These were erected at various points outside the Walls, to mark the extreme limits of the City Liber...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
·noun A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; — used mostly in the fisheries...
To go to the manor of pickt hatch, a cant name for some part of the town noted for bawdy houses in S...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A smaller kind of companion, but readily removable; it is in use for merchantmen's half decks, and l...
A sort of small vessel known as a pilot-boat, having a deck composed almost entirely of hatches. ...
Gun brigs had hatches instead of lower decks. ...
Rings to lift the hatches by, or replace them. ...
A lid or hatch for covering and closing the scuttles when necessary. ...
At the north end of Aldersgate Street, marking the boundary of the City liberties in that direction....
Across Holborn, at its western end, at Gray's Inn Lane, being the western boundary of the City (Rocq...
At the north end of West Smithfield dividing the Liberty of the City from the County, on the norther...
These bars marked the eastern boundary of the City's liberties outside the walls and were at the jun...
Long pieces of wood of the best ash or hickory, one end of which is thrust into the square holes in ...
Round bars of iron, bent at each end, used as levers to turn the shank of an anchor. ...
The range fronting a steam-boiler. ...
Strong pieces of oak, furnished with two laniards, by which the ports are secured from flying open i...
, or stay-rods. Strong malleable iron bars for supporting the framings of the marine steam-engine....
Mentioned in Strype's description of the bounds of Portsoken Ward, the bounds, after the Bars, cross...
A word of caution to the helmsman, not to let the ship fall to leeward of her course. ...