berth Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a job in an organization
    office; billet; spot; place; situation; position; post.
    • he occupied a post in the treasury
  2. noun a place where a craft can be made fast
    moorage; slip; mooring.
  3. noun a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers
    built in bed; bunk.
  4. verb provide with a berth
  5. verb secure in or as if in a berth or dock
    moor; tie up.
    • tie up the boat
  6. verb come into or dock at a wharf
    moor; wharf.
    • the big ship wharfed in the evening

WordNet

Berth noun
Etymology
From the root of bear to produce, like birth nativity. See Birth.
Definitions
  1. (Naut.) (a) Convenient sea room. (b) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside. (c) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.
  2. An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. "He has a good berth." Totten.
  3. 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 transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Berthed present participle & verbal noun Berthing
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913