hatchway

[Eng. hatch, s., and way.] 1. Ord . Lang .: An opening in the floor of a warehouse for the pa age of goods. 2. Ship build .: One of the large square openings in the deck of a ship whereby freight is hoisted in or out, and acce is had to the hold. hatchway-screens, s . pl . Naut .: Screens or pieces of thick woolen cloth put round the hatchways of a man-of-war during an engagement. Also called fire-screens. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = L hate hate (1), *hat-en, *hat-1-en, *hat-ye, v . [A. S. hatian; cogn. with Dut. haten; Icel. hat a ; Sw. hat a; Dan. hade; Goth. hatjan, hat an; Ger. ha en .] 1. Ord. Lang.: To dislike exceedingly; to abhor, to detest; to have or feel a great aversion to. "The chiefs of the opposition did not fear him enough to hate him." -Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xxv. 2. Script .: To like or love le . "If any man come to me, and hate not father and mother."- Luke xiv. 26. To hate is a personal feeling directed toward the object independently of its qualities; to detest is a feeling independent of the person, and altogether dependent upon the nature of the thing. Hence it is that one hates , but not detests , the person who has done an injury to one's self; and that one detests , rather than hates , the person who has done injuries to others. (Crabb: Eng. Synon.)