hatchway

How To Use hatchway In A Sentence

• She reached the hatchway and checked to see if it was booby-trapped. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
• Abaft the hatchway was a door on the starboard side which I opened, and found a narrow dark passage. The Frozen Pirate
• The two of them headed down the hatchway to the lowest deck.
• A mariner emerges from the hatchway and climbs the rigging, while below the boatswain and ship's master are thrown about on deck.
• A glance up the hatchway showed the giant that the arms he had planned to seize were defended by ten firelocks, and that, behind the open doors of the partition which ran abaft the mizenmast, the remainder of the detachment stood to their arms. For the term of his natural life
• He was going to find the manual door controls but as soon as he stepped near the hatchway, they slowly opened up automatically and the light started flowing through.
• Stowing away his "dunnage," therefore, in the after deck - house, and flinging his bedding into the berth which he selected for his own occupation, he quickly rejoined the mate, who furnished him with book and pencil, and stationed him at the after hatchway to take account of everything which passed down that receptacle. The Missing Merchantman
• A hatchway between leads back into the forecastle, a tight and very silty space should you feel inclined to explore.
• All that could be seen of the two craft that the ship possessed were the two identical hatchways, which led into the darkness of the interior of the pods.
• See if the hatchway is down, and show her where to put her clothes. Ten Days in a Mad-House