Berth

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Convenient sea room.

2. A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.

3. The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.

4. An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. "He has a good berth." Totten.

5. 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. Berth deck, the deck next below the lower gun deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- To give (the land or any object) a wide berth, to keep at a distance from it.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. 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.

2. To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company. Totten.