DEFINITION
BERTH:
• (n.) Convenient sea room.
• (n.) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company
mess and reside.
• (n.) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a
wharf.
• (n.) An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment.
• (n.) A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the
side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.
• (v. t.) To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place
in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.
• (v. t.) To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth
a ship's company.