HATCHWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hatchway mean? 

• HATCHWAY (noun)
  The noun HATCHWAY has 1 sense:

1. an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

  Familiarity information: HATCHWAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HATCHWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hatchway; opening; scuttle

Hypernyms ("hatchway" is a kind of...):

entrance; entranceway; entree; entry; entryway (something that provides access (to get in or get out))

Meronyms (parts of "hatchway"):

hatch (a movable barrier covering a hatchway)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hatchway"):

escape hatch (hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency)

 Context examples 

I saw him come out on deck again with a tool-chest and a lantern, and go down the forward hatchway.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I had stepped underneath the open hatchway so that I could see him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Among the great beams, bulks, and ringbolts of the ship, and the emigrant-berths, and chests, and bundles, and barrels, and heaps of miscellaneous baggage—“lighted up, here and there, by dangling lanterns; and elsewhere by the yellow daylight straying down a windsail or a hatchway—were crowded groups of people, making new friendships, taking leave of one another, talking, laughing, crying, eating and drinking; some, already settled down into the possession of their few feet of space, with their little households arranged, and tiny children established on stools, or in dwarf elbow-chairs; others, despairing of a resting-place, and wandering disconsolately.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Just as I was beginning to hope that the mate would come out calmer—for I heard him knocking away at something in the hold, and work is good for him—there came up the hatchway a sudden, startled scream, which made my blood run cold, and up on the deck he came as if shot from a gun—a raging madman, with his eyes rolling and his face convulsed with fear.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The cook stuck his head out of the galley door and grinned encouragingly at me, at the same time jerking his thumb in the direction of the man who paced up and down by the hatchway.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)