Definition of Companionways

1. Noun. (plural of companionway) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Companionways

1. companionway [n] - See also: companionway

Lexicographical Neighbors of Companionways

companionability
companionable
companionableness
companionably
companionate
companionate marriage
companioned
companioning
companionless
companionlessness
companionly
companions
companionship
companionships
companionway
companionways (current term)
companisation
companisations
companization
companizations
compansion
compansions
company-store
company clinic
company clinics
company front
company fronts
company name

Literary usage of Companionways

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission by Isthmian Canal Commission (U.S.), United States President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Canal Zone Governor (1914)
"companionways and companion houses shall be exempted when used solely as ... When used as smoking rooms or for any other purposes than companionways or ..."

2. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"This I prepared by planing down a bit of plank to the proper thickness—or thinness—and carefully fitted it into its place, with companionways fore and aft, ..."

3. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain (1899)
"... spaces at the heads of companionways were full, every inch of floor and table in the swill-room was packed with sleeping men and remained so until the ..."

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