midships

[ mid-ships ]

adverb

Origin of midships

1
First recorded in 1620–30

Words Nearby midships

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How to use midships in a sentence

  • The same route was available for first-class passengers forward of midships on B, C, and E decks.

    Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' | British Government
  • Here we struck on a sandbar with such force of steam and current as to land us almost out of the water from stem to midships.

    The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete | General Philip Henry Sheridan
  • A ketch is a wessel wot has one big mast set well aft about midships an' a little one way aft of the fust one.

    Woven with the Ship | Cyrus Townsend Brady
  • She had the night previous run down a fishing schooner, seeing nothing of her until she struck her midships.

    Torrey's Narrative | William Torrey
  • Then the upright boiler would have to be set in there, a trifle aft of midships, so that the man at the helm could stoke as well.

    Egholm and his God | Johannes Buchholtz

British Dictionary definitions for midships

midships

/ (ˈmɪdˌʃɪps) /


adverb, adjective
  1. nautical See amidships

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