hatchways in English

noun
1
an opening or hatch, especially in a ship's deck.
Other small huts on the deck cover a hatchway below decks and the rigging store.

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1. He calls it 'Battening of the hatches' but it is clearly the same expression: “Battens of the hatches: Long narrow laths serving by the help of nailing to confine the edges of the tarpaulins, and keep them close down to the sides of the hatchways in bad weather.”