Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A passage or an opening leading to a hold, compartment, or cellar.
- n. A ladder or stairway within a hatchway.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A square or oblong opening in the deck of a ship, affording a passage from one deck to another, or into the hold or lower apartments. See hatch, n., 3.
- n. The opening of any trapdoor, as in a floor, ceiling, or roof.
Wiktionary
- n. 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
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
Examples
“See if the hatchway is down, and show her where to put her clothes.”
“To drop through the hatchway was the work of an instant, when I at once saw what was the matter.”
“Pushing upward through the hatchway was a smooth, square column of cat.”
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
“Abaft the hatchway was a door on the starboard side which I opened, and found a narrow dark passage.”
“Near the center of the kiva two short timbers are laid across the two main beams about 5 feet apart; this is done to preserve a space of 5 by 7 feet for the hatchway, which is made with walls of stone laid in mud plaster, resting upon the two central beams and upon the two side pieces.”
“Over the hatchway was a wheel by which the food of the convicts was lowered into the hold at morning, noon, and night; at other times it was used for raising in an iron cage, from the lower decks, convicts who were allowed exercise, but the weight of whose irons prevented their ascending by the companionways.”
The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
“I would enter the cabin through a waterproof Plexiglas hatchway that was nineteen inches square.”
“He lowered the glasses through which he was scanning the sea and pointed down the hatchway that opened into the big after-room beneath.”
“The 20-minute tour, which documents the full 167 feet of the space station's pressurized modules, was recorded by NASA Flight Engineer Michael Barratt to show Mission Control how equipment and supplies are arranged and stored, and to provide engineers with a detailed assessment of each module-to-module hatchway.”
“One of the first things is how the door between worlds isn't a standard door, as in the book, but a short hatchway of a door.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hatchway’.
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Places and spaces
This list was inspired by Ry's 'thresholds' list.
postern, littoral, dermis, eventide, lacuna, perimeter, aperture, hatchway, periphery, portcullis, selvage, fimbria and 38 more...
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Thresholds
we are all just passing through.
(boundaries, portals and liminal spaces/times)cockcrow, interface, thin line, portal, postern, littoral, interstice, port, membrane, skin, crepuscule, dawn and 309 more...
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Some Ship-building Terms
Ship builders' terms, from stem to stern (these words aren't on the list).
ledge, lay, leveling-block, mold-loft, munnion, planking, planking-clamp, strake, ram-line, ram, rib, ribband and 248 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 2)
fable, sprite, syphilitic, anvil, wonderstruck, vertigo, bridled, tufted, fettered, savvy, tweed fedora, tryst and 255 more...
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ways
As in routes, avenues & tracts. Omitting, e.g., halfway, anyway, sideways, folkway, Haddaway. (many of those are found thisways)
alleyway, Broadway, highway, hatchway, archway, thruway, railway, doorway, runway, skyway, hallway, shaftway and 79 more...
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Out
Words that connote making an exit, places to exit, means to an exit.
exit, way out, exeunt, outfall, opening, débouché, outlet, egress, vent, porthole, loophole, port and 49 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, H
hurlyburly, hurtle, hodgepodge, heartwood, hatch, halo, hooptedoodle, hacienda, hairpin, heyday, hardscrabble, hopper and 208 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
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