hatchway

The hatchways had to be closed, and below deck the air grew so foul that the very lanterns burned dim.

I saw him come out on deck again with a tool-chest and a lantern, and go down the forward hatchway.

A set of new hatchway doors for someone’s boat leaned up against my father’s workbench.

Gibbon nods and puts more of his strange marks on the wall by the hatchway.

The faintly lit hatchway lay in the dark of the yard like a grave yawning at judgment day in some old apocalyptic painting.