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Amidships. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Amidships adv. [prop. a phrase, = ‘in the ship’s middle, in centre of the ship,’ retaining the genitive which originally followed AMID, as in amid-heaps. The phr. must therefore be old though our instances begin late.] In the middle of a ship; rarely, to or towards the middle of the ship.

1 1692.  Smith, Seaman’s Gram., I. xvi. 76. He who cuns the Ship uses these terms to him at Helm, Starboard, Larboard, Port, Helm a Midships.

2 1755.  Smollett, Don Quix. (1803), II. 185. The other … took us amidships, and laid the side of the bark entirely open.

3 1833.  Marryat, Pet. Simple. The two sheep-pens amidships are full of pigs. Ibid. (1837), Perc. Keene, xl. (1863), 282. The vessel … had parted amidships.

4 1859.  M. Scott, Tom Cringle, xv. 372. I moved round more amidships.

5 1873.  Brit. Q. Rev., Jan., 110. In the Invincible the whole of the protected guns are carried amidships.

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