midships
Origin of 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 GovernmentHere 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 SheridanA 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 BradyShe had the night previous run down a fishing schooner, seeing nothing of her until she struck her midships.
Torrey's Narrative | William TorreyThen 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
/ (ˈmɪdˌʃɪps) /
nautical See amidships
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