Word Meanings - HATCHWAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.

Related words: (words related to HATCHWAY)

• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• CELLARIST
  See CELLARER
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• OBLONGLY
  In an oblong form.
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• SQUARE-TOED
  Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox.
• SQUARELY
  In a square form or manner.
• STORYBOOK
  A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.
• OBLONG-OVATE
  Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.
• SQUARE-RIGGED
  Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.
• OPEN
  1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures
• OPEN-MOUTHED
  Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
• PASSAGEWAY
  A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
• FLOORHEADS
  The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.
• FLOORAGE
  Floor space.
• STORY-TELLER
  1. One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller. 2. An historian; -- in contempt. Swift. 3. A euphemism or child's word for "a liar."
• FLOORWALKER
  One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
• FLOOR
  That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal. The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. A horizontal, flat ore body. Raymond. Floor cloth, a heavy fabric, painted, varnished,
• CELLAR
  A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.
• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• T SQUARE
  See T
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
• CAPSQUARE
  A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a cannon, and holds it in place.
• CLERESTORY
  See CLEARSTORY
• FALDISTORY
  The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. (more info) faldstuol; faldan, faltan, to fold + stuol stool. So called because it could be folded or laid together. See Fold, and
• OCELLARY
  Of or pertaining to ocelli.
• SCOLOPENDRINE
  Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.