Nettings sometimes placed over the hatchways instead of gratings, for security and circulation of air. They arrest the fall of any one from a deck above.
·noun A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to ano...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A square or oblong opening in the middle of the deck of a ship, of which there are generally three t...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Pieces of fear-nought, or thick woollen cloth, put round the hatchways of a man-of-war in time of ac...
Those for a hempen cable are fitted as a ring-stopper, only a larger rope. They are rove through a h...
A framework of stout rope-netting placed where necessary, to obstruct an enemy's boarders. ...
See hammock-nettings. ...
Take their distinguishing names according to their location in the ship, as forecastle, waist, quart...
The places allotted on the quarters for the stowage of hammocks, which, in action, serve to arrest m...
See top. ...
The hammock-nettings between the quarter-deck and forecastle. ...
See netting. ...
Slender bars of iron or wood, the lower ends of which are fixed in iron sockets at proper distances....
A method by which the operation of coiling is facilitated; it alludes to hempen cables, which are no...