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under hatches

under hatches prepositional phrase: confined below in a vessel.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Confined below in a vessel.
  2. Under arrest, or in slavery, distress, etc.

Questions about under hatches

What does under hatches mean?
Under hatches means confined below in a vessel.
What part of speech is under hatches?
Under hatches is a prepositional phrase.

Words near under hatches in the dictionary

  1. under erasure
  2. under fire
  3. under glass
  4. under ground
  5. under hack
  6. under hatches
  7. under lock and key
  8. under no circumstance
  9. under no circumstances
  10. under oath
  11. under one roof

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