hatch-coaming

Kirk, in a reefer any number of sizes too large for him, sat on a hatch-coaming and drank in the flying wonder of the schooner's way.

The Happy Venture Edith Ballinger Price 1947

Slowly, slowly it lifted and rested on the big blunt bows of the _Narcissus_, hovered there a few seconds and came slowly aft, and as it lighted up the main deck Mr. Henckel rose from behind the hatch-coaming.

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"I'll have to flank that fella an 'put a shtop to this nonsense," Mr. Reardon decided presently, and forthwith crept across the deck on his hands and knees until he reached the hatch-coaming.

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He sat down very suddenly on the hatch-coaming and covered his terrible face with his terrible hands.

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Narcissus; so he kept the searchlight on the combatants while Mr. Reardon bent Mr. Henckel's back over the hatch-coaming, took his automatic away from him, and proceeded to take a cast of the mate's features in the vulcanite butt of the weapon.

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Colonel Bishop sat himself down on the hatch-coaming, took off his broad hat, and mopped his brow.

Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912

He stumbles against a hatch-coaming and kicks his shoe across the deck.

A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" Russell Doubleday 1910

Then -- sitting round the fo'c's'le, some on the edge of the hatch-coaming, some dangling their legs over the windlass bitts, and others bringing themselves to an anchor on a coil of the bower hawser, that had not been stowed away properly below, but remained lumbering the deck -- all began to yarn about the events of the day.

The Island Treasure 1887

Why, back of the hatch-coaming, of course -- or the winch. "

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