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t. [ company. The special object of these [changes on the approach of winter] was the economy of fuel and the berthing of the whole crew below deck. C. F. Hall , Polar Exp., p. 122. W. Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, i. 2. berth3 (berth), v. t. [Early mod. E. byrth, per The theatres are berries for the fair: Like auts on mole-hills thither they repair. haps board or side of a ship Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love, i. 103.