Crossword-Solution: COAMINGS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Coamings | n. pl. | Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges. |
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| Raised borders that prevent water overflow | 1 answer |
| Opener | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise;
as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
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Move
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Sentences with COAMINGS (5)
Seated on the hatch-coamings, the Somersetshire lad gratefully filled his lungs with the cool night air, and professed himself revived thereby.
One looks down over the coamings three hundred feet to the despatching-caisson whence voices boom upward.
The next instant she was in the trough, her lee-rail buried till the ocean was level with her hatch-coamings, sea after sea breaking over her weather rail and sweeping what remained exposed of the deck with icy deluges.
Each of these hatch-ways, or orifices, had the usual defences of “coamings,” strong frame-work around their margins.
These coamings rose six or eight inches above the deck, and answered the double purpose of strengthening the vessel, in a part, that without them would be weaker han common, and of preventing any water that might be washing about the decks from running below.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2001).