Word Meanings - TRUNKSTEAMER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides.

• Freightage
  Charge for transportation; expense of carriage.
• Hatchettine
  Alt. of Hatchettite
• Haversack
  A bag for oats or oatmeal.
• Freighter
  One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.
• Hatchettite
  Mineral t/ low; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish yellow color.
• Haversian
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
• Freightless
  Destitute of freight.
• Hatchment
  A sort of panel, upon which the arms of a deceased person are temporarily displayed, -- usually on the walls of his dwelling. It is lozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It is used in England as a means of giving public notification of
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Coamings
  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.
• Hatched
  of Hatch
• Hatchure
  Same as Hachure.
• Continuously
  In a continuous maner; without interruption.
• Hatching
  of Hatch
• Hatchway
  A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.
• Extended
  of Extend

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