hatchway

Etymology

hatch + way

noun

  1. A means of passing through a wall or floor, having a hatch (especially on a ship); a doorway with a hatch rather than a door.
    Up through the great hatchways rimmed with racks of heavy shot, the watch below came pouring […] 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 22, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.

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