Pieces of canvas temporarily hung round a berth, for warmth and privacy. (See berth.)
·add. ·noun An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to enable ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A bank note. Queer screens; forged bank notes. The cove was twisted for smashing queer screens; the ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·noun Convenient sea room. II. Berth ·noun An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employme...
I. The station in which a ship rides at anchor, either alone, or in a fleet; as, she lies in a goo...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A foul or rocky anchorage. ...
The 'tween decks. ...
When a ship anchors in the hawse of another she gives the latter a foul berth; or she may anchor on ...
In ship-building, the distance from the moulding edge of one timber to the moulding edge of the next...
See loblolly-boy. ...
To move from one anchorage to another. ...