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.