coamings

Each of these hatch-ways, or orifices, had the usual defences of "coamings," strong frame-work around their margins.

Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820

That our good old-fashioned mode of spelling should receive the modern improvements was perhaps unavoidable, but surely we never spelt "coamings" (of

Preface to the Water Witch 1830

The passageways were blocked off at regular intervals by bulkheads and huge metal hatches with rims, or coamings, that one had to step over to get from compartment to compartment.

Battlestar Galactica Carver_Jeffrey 2006

All metal objects such as stacks, winches, masts, coamings, engine blocks, stoves, appliances and stays are securely grounded to these copper rods so that built-up current can flow to the zincs.

Chapter 8 1983

Hrrula carefully got into the skiff, looked at the far side, felt on the coamings and then spread his hands wide, questioningly.

Decision at Doona McCaffrey, Anne 1969

One hot summer afternoon, when the _Saucy Sally_ was taking in cargo and the Skipper was ashore, Mr. Topper, seated on the coamings of the hatchway, abandoned himself to the melancholy pleasures of Haydn's

Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various

"Like as not they've left off the hatch coamings."

Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

Blood returned to the Colonel, who, under guard and panic-stricken, had dejectedly resumed his seat on the coamings of the main batch.

Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912

Seated on the hatch-coamings, the Somersetshire lad gratefully filled his lungs with the cool night air, and professed himself revived thereby.

Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912

Such was the comprehension and despatch with which he gave his commands that the captain returned from divine worship to find the Maria in profane hands, her immaculate deck littered with straw and sawdust, and covered to the coamings with bottles and cases.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909