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- noun Plural form of
berthing .
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What I mean is that when you live on a ship you live in "berthings" which is a big room with a bunch of males OR females living in a cramped space where you may or may not walk around in undergarments, it's basically a big locker room with coffin racks.
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The ship is scheduled for decommissioning next spring, in part because it's too old to spend the money required to retrofit the berthings (sleeping cabins) and heads (bathrooms) for women.
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They turned east at the empty carrier berthings, over the Hampton bridge-tunnel, then past the crowded amphibious basin at Little Creek.
Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986
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Almost a quarter of berthings in 2010 used shore power in lieu of diesel
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