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hatchways

hatchways is the plural of hatchway.

Meaning of hatchway

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.

Questions about hatchways

What is hatchways the plural of?
Hatchways is the plural of hatchway.

Words near hatchways in the dictionary

  1. hatchures
  2. Hatchville
  3. hatchway
  4. hatchwayman
  5. hatchwaymen
  6. hatchways
  7. hatchwork
  8. hatchworks
  9. hatchy
  10. hate
  11. hate boner

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