berth n
   1 1987 Evening Telegram 18 Apr, p. 23 [tape transcript] He had so many berths sent him from Bowring Brothers. I went out and got a berth on the Viking from him.
   3 1984 POWELL 23 The [salmon] nets were sixty fathoms long, so we joined them together and put two in a berth, then ran the nets about seventy-five fathoms straight. 1987 POOLE 75 I had no berths; everybody at Fox Harbour considered that the berths were theirs, as their fathers and grandfathers fished them and that the berths belonged to them.
   5 Attrib, comb ~ money.
   1985 BUSCH 55 Owners, with limited supply to meet considerable demand, found they could charge the men a fee, 'berth money,' merely for the privilege of stepping aboard [a sealing vessel].

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