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- noun The side of a
berth (mooring-point for a ship etc.).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even the entire contents of the Sea-witch's tank would not have filled a quarter of the supertanker's carrying capacity, and the possibility of a supertanker running at a loss, however small, would have been the source of waking nightmares for the North Hudson: equally importantly, the more isolated ports which Lord Worth favored for the delivery of his oil were unable to offer deep-water berthside facilities for anything in excess of fifty thousand tons.
Seawitch MacLean, Alistair 1977
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There was one man, of maybe forty, that would sit on my berthside for hours and tell me of his wife and child.
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There was one man, of maybe forty, that would sit on my berthside for hours and tell me of his wife and child.
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Bear in mind VSEL had already turned their back on surface shipbuilding in the past & demolished their berthside cranes instead of mothballing them.
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Bear in mind VSEL had already turned their back on surface shipbuilding in the past & demolished their berthside cranes instead of mothballing them.
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Bear in mind VSEL had already turned their back on surface shipbuilding in the past & demolished their berthside cranes instead of mothballing them.
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Sharp cuts in military spending left many Russian warships rusting berthside and forced the navy to scrap dozens of comparatively modern vessels.
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berthside, pink blooms, giant Medusa sporing, five-hundred million cloud creatures teasing brainlessly in the pelagic.
Unfathomable Mammals Marc Vincenz 2011
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