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hatchway

Syllables: hatch·way/ˈhæt͡ʃweɪ/

hatchway noun: a means of passing through a wall or floor, having a hatch (especially on a ship); a doorway with a hatch rather than a door.

Noun

hatchway (plural hatchways)

  1. A means of passing through a wall or floor, having a hatch (especially on a ship); a doorway with a hatch rather than a door.
    • Up through the great hatchways rimmed with racks of heavy shot, the watch below came pouring […]1924, Herman Melville, chapter 22, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.
    • Full-depth, hinged doors are provided on each side of the engine and generator housing, and hatchways are fitted in the roof over the engine.1958 January, “New Diesel-Electric Locomotives for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 20

hatchway meaning in Tamil and Bengali

hatchway in Tamil

தளப்புழைவாய், நிலத்தளத்திலுள்ள புகுவாயில், சுவரிலுள்ள திட்டிவாயில், மோட்டிலுள்ள புழைவாய்

hatchway in Bengali

যাতে একটি হ্যাচ থাকে

Forms of hatchway

pluralhatchways

Origin of hatchway

From hatch + way.

Questions about hatchway

What does hatchway mean?
Hatchway means a means of passing through a wall or floor, having a hatch (especially on a ship); a doorway with a hatch rather than a door.
What is hatchway in Tamil?
Hatchway in Tamil is தளப்புழைவாய், நிலத்தளத்திலுள்ள புகுவாயில், சுவரிலுள்ள திட்டிவாயில். See Hatchway meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hatchway?
Hatchway is a noun.
How do you pronounce hatchway?
Hatchway is pronounced /ˈhæt͡ʃweɪ/.
What is the plural of hatchway?
The plural of hatchway is hatchways.

Words near hatchway in the dictionary

  1. hatchments
  2. hatcht
  3. hatchure
  4. hatchures
  5. Hatchville
  6. hatchway
  7. hatchwayman
  8. hatchwaymen
  9. hatchways
  10. hatchwork
  11. hatchworks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hatchway (page history and authors); hatchway (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hatchway (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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