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Definitions for berth:

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Berth \Berth\ (b[~e]rth), n. [From the root of bear to produce, like birth nativity. See Birth.] [Also written birth.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Naut.) (a) Convenient sea room. (b) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside. (c) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf. [1913 Webster] 2. An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. "He has a good berth." --Totten. [1913 Webster] 3. A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in. [1913 Webster] Berth deck, the deck next below the lower gun deck. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. To give (the land or any object) a wide berth, to keep at a distance from it. [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Berth \Berth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Berthed; p. pr. & vb. n. Berthing.] 1. To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide. [1913 Webster] 2. To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company. --Totten. [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 2.0 :
berth n 1: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" [syn: position, post, office, spot, billet, place, situation] 2: a place where a craft can be made fast [syn: mooring, moorage, slip] 3: a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers [syn: bunk, {built in bed}] v 1: provide with a berth 2: secure in or as if in a berth or dock; "tie up the boat" [syn: moor, tie up] 3: come into or dock at a wharf; "the big ship wharfed in the evening" [syn: moor, wharf]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "berth": abide, accommodations, anchor, anchorage, anchorage ground, appointment, basin, bed, billet, breakwater, bulkhead, bunk, cohabit, connection, diggings, digs, dock, dockage, dockyard, domicile, domiciliate, doss down, dry dock, dwell, embankment, employment, engagement, gig, groin, hang out, harbor, harborage, haven, hook, house, housing, incumbency, inhabit, jetty, job, jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, levee, live, living quarters, lob, lodge, lodging, lodgings, lodgment, marina, mole, moonlighting, mooring, mooring buoy, moorings, mudhook, nest, occupy, office, opening, perch, pier, place, port, position, post, protected anchorage, put up, quarter, quarters, quay, remain, reside, road, roads, roadstead, room, rooms, roost, seaport, seawall, second job, service, shelter, shipyard, situation, sleeping place, slip, spot, squat, stable, station, stay, tenant, tenure, vacancy, wharf

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berth n. Sufficient space for a ship to maneuver; sea room: kept a clear berth of the reefs. ... The captain carefully eased the huge ocean liner into a narrow berth. ...

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berth - Wiktionary
to berth (third-person singular simple present berths, present participle ... Retrieved from "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/berth" ...

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