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Word Meanings - HATCHWAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.

Related words: (words related to HATCHWAY)

  • OPENNESS
    The quality or state of being open.
  • CELLARIST
    See CELLARER
  • STORY-WRITER
    1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • OBLONGLY
    In an oblong form.
  • OPEN SEA
    A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
  • SQUARE-TOED
    Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox.
  • SQUARELY
    In a square form or manner.
  • STORYBOOK
    A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.
  • OBLONG-OVATE
    Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.
  • SQUARE-RIGGED
    Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.
  • OPEN
    1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures
  • OPEN-MOUTHED
    Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
  • PASSAGEWAY
    A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
  • FLOORHEADS
    The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.
  • FLOORAGE
    Floor space.
  • STORY-TELLER
    1. One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller. 2. An historian; -- in contempt. Swift. 3. A euphemism or child's word for "a liar."
  • FLOORWALKER
    One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
  • FLOOR
    That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal. The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. A horizontal, flat ore body. Raymond. Floor cloth, a heavy fabric, painted, varnished,
  • CELLAR
    A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.
  • THREE-SQUARE
    Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
  • PROPENE
    See PROPYLENE
  • T SQUARE
    See T
  • PROPENSE
    Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
  • CAPSQUARE
    A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a cannon, and holds it in place.
  • CLERESTORY
    See CLEARSTORY
  • FALDISTORY
    The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. (more info) faldstuol; faldan, faltan, to fold + stuol stool. So called because it could be folded or laid together. See Fold, and
  • OCELLARY
    Of or pertaining to ocelli.
  • SCOLOPENDRINE
    Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.

 

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