berthing

Verb

berth (third-person singular simple present berths, present participle berthing, simple past and past participle berthed)

1. (transitive) To bring (a ship or other vessel) into a berth (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1); also, to provide a berth for (a vessel).
   • "The Henery," being let loose to drive up the river of herself, did run up as high as the bridge, and broke down some of the rails of the bridge, and so back again with the tide, and up again, and then berthed himself so well as no pilot could ever have done better; […]1667 July 9 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “June 30th, 1667”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume VI, London...

   Antonyms:

   unberth

   1. (specifically, transitive) To use a device to bring (a spacecraft) into its berth or dock.
2. (broadly, transitive, chiefly passive voice) To assign (someone) a berth (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.3 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2) or place to sleep on a vessel, a train, etc.
3. (figuratively, transitive) To provide (someone) with a berth (noun etymology 1, noun sense 3.1) or appointment, job, or position.
4. (intransitive, reflexive) Of a vessel: to move into a berth.
5. (broadly, intransitive) Of a person: to occupy a berth.
   • The cabin-boy Ransome […] came in at times from the round-house, where he berthed and served, now nursing a bruised limb in silent agony, now raving against the cruelty of Mr. Shuan.1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Go to Sea in the Brig Covenant of Dysart”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris...

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