Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Furnished with (water-tight) bulkheads: applied to ships.

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Examples

  • Below, to star-board, on the bridge deck, the pilot saw the crushed mess-room door, roughly bulkheaded against the pounding seas.

    THE SEA FARMER 2010

  • The point is, if things are going down in the rear of the aircraft, and with the idea of the bulkheaded doors, the TV camera looking aft, the pilots have some idea of when to do this.

    CNN Transcript Jan 21, 2002 2002

  • It's all bulkheaded compartments and safety doors.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • The bulkheaded boats had both sides and two longitudinal bulkheads placed so as to divide the scow into three sections of equal width, built of 8 by 8-in. or 10 by 10-in. timbers, laid one upon the other, and bolted through from top to bottom.

    Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 George C. Clarke

  • The escape of air was very great, and, as a pressure of more than 28 lb. could not be maintained, the face was bulkheaded and the tunnel was shut down for three weeks in order to permit the river bed to consolidate.

    Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159 James H. Brace

  • Of course, it's a little too much to expect that any one of the life-boats will be left whole, but they're bulkheaded, too, you know, so that we can be sure of finding something able to navigate -- providing we can make our get-away.

    Spacehounds of IPC 1927

  • The Tolands 'rambling mansion was built upon so sharp a hill that the garden beds were bulkheaded like terraces, and the paths were steep.

    The Story of Julia Page Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • Like all the old homes that still stand to mark the era when Valencia Street was as desired an address as California Street is to-day, it stood upon bulkheaded ground, with a fat-pillared wooden fence bounding the wide lawns.

    Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • Below, to star-board, on the bridge deck, the pilot saw the crushed mess-room door, roughly bulkheaded against the pounding seas.

    The Sea Farmer 1914

  • Below, to star-board, on the bridge deck, the pilot saw the crushed mess-room door, roughly bulkheaded against the pounding seas.

    The Strength of the Strong Jack London 1896

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