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coaming

NOUN
  1. a raised framework around a hatchway on a ship to keep water out

How To Use coaming In A Sentence

  • One of the guards pulled the hatch door open, and Adama stepped over the lip of the coaming and into the room President Roslin and her aide had set up as a temporary office. Battlestar Galactica
  • Further back, the port side of the deck is low in the silt and either the hold coamings are offset to starboard or the forward mast is offset to port.
  • As John Paul retreated, he could feel his heel strike the coaming, or edge, of a hatchway. John Paul Jones
  • Mah frend haz kitteh dhat askz fur habin brushing and coaming. Do not get wet…. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • As they stepped over the coaming, Collier took a lifeline harness and handed it to the big survivor. LET NOT THE DEEP
  • They will meet end to end over a block placed a foot aft of the carline which forms the nail strip for the front cockpit coaming, which latter crosses the boat five feet aft of the bow.
  • He was up the ladder and into the wheelhouse before I had stepped over the coaming of the steel door to a transversal gangway. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
  • I began a diary, scratched on the cockpit coaming.
  • Evidence of the coal bunkers being forward of the boilers is provided by a pair of hatch coamings, through which the fuel would have been loaded, resting on the sand.
  • Inside the tent was a flat hatch raised on a coaming a few inches above the floor. Worldshaker
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