Meanings
plural hatchways
- A means of passing through a wall or floor, having a hatch (especially on a ship); a doorway with a hatch rather than a door.
Up through the great hatchways rimmed with racks of heavy shot, the watch below came pouring […]
1924, Herman Melville, chapter 22, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.1 more example
Full-depth, hinged doors are provided on each side of the engine and generator housing, and hatchways are fitted in the roof over the engine.
1958 January 28, “New Diesel-Electric Locomotives for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 20
Synonyms & antonyms
nounan entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian люк
- люк (ljuk)doorway with hatch
Catalan escotilla
- escotilladoorway with hatch
Chinese Mandarin 艙口 /舱口
- 艙口 /舱口 (cāngkǒu)doorway with hatch
Finnish kulkuluukku
- kulkuluukkudoorway with hatch
French écoutille
- écoutilledoorway with hatch
Irish haiste
- haistedoorway with hatch
Italian boccaporto
- boccaportodoorway with hatch
Japanese 艙口
- 艙口 (sōkō)doorway with hatch
Polish luk
- lukdoorway with hatch
Portuguese alçapão
- alçapãodoorway with hatch
Russian люк
- люк (ljuk)doorway with hatch
Ukrainian люк
- люк (ljuk)doorway with hatch
Cite this entry
hatchway. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hatchway
“hatchway.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hatchway. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hatchway,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hatchway.
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