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UK
/mˈɪdʃɪps/
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ADVERB
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at or near or toward the center of a ship
in the late 19th century, engines were placed in front, amidships, and at the rear
How To Use midships In A Sentence
- Only two men could be seen on her deck, one at the tiller and one amidships to work the sail.
- They could see her profile with the bridge amidships and her gantries and the smoke blowing sideways. THE MAIN CAGES
- It is an unusual design of ship, a collier with engine-room aft and wheelhouse amidships.
- The explosion ripped through the steel hull of Cole on the port side amidships with a deafening roar.
- The vessel is badly damaged from amidships aft.
- It seems this artist and industrial designer came up with the idea after he broke a toe on an amidships cleat.
- With this security he had established as his right a caboose abaft the funnel in the midships Bofors gunshield where the gun had been removed.
- Ed has an all-purpose 75-foot boat with twin diesel engines and a five-ton crane amidships.
- The only holds offered were the handrail on the coachroof and the small cleat amidships.
- The captain of a submarine is shown observing through the periscope a broken-backed merchantman, torpedoed fair amidships and sinking by the bow, with the complacent rhyme.
