DCHP-1 Online

berth

• 1 n. Lumbering a tract of forested land the bounds of which have been established by the government, which leases or sells the rights to fell and remove timber.

  See also: timber limit (def. 1a)  

• 2 n. Hist. a place on a sealing vessel and the right to share in the profits of the hunt.

• 3 n. the fee paid by each man in the crew for his share of the costs of provisioning a vessel and the right to share in the profits of the hunt.

  See also: berth money  

• 4 n. Fishing a part of a fishery claimed by a vessel and her crew with the exclusive right to fish for the season.