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Webster 1913 Edition

Berth

Berth

(bẽrth)
,
Noun.
[From the root of
bear
to produce, like
birth
nativity. See
Birth
.]
[Also written
birth
.]
1.
(Naut.)
(a)
Convenient sea room.
(b)
A room in which a number of the officers or ship’s company mess and reside.
(c)
The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.
2.
An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment.
“He has a good berth.”
Totten.
3.
A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.
Berth deck
,
the deck next below the lower gun deck.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.
–
To give
(the land or any object)
a wide berth
,
to keep at a distance from it.

Berth

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Berthed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Berthing
.]
1.
To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth;
as, she was
berthed
stem to stern with the Adelaide
.
2.
To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard;
as, to
berth
a ship's company
.
Totten.

Webster 1828 Edition

Berth

BERTH

,
Noun.
[from the root of bear.]
1.
A station in which a ship rides at anchor, comprehending the space in which she ranges. In more familiar usage, the word signifies any situation or place, where a vessel lies or can lie, whether at anchor or at a wharf.
2.
A room or apartment in a ship, where a number of officers or men mess and reside.
3.
The box or place for sleeping at the sides of a cabin; the place for a hammoc, or a repository for chests, &c.
To berth, in seamen's language, is to allot to each man a place for his hammoc.

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