Also 6 byrth. [perh. f. Icel. byrði board or side of a ship.] To board, cover or make up with boards. (Chiefly in Ship-building.) Hence Berthed ppl. a. boarded. See BERTHING2.
1574. R. Scot, Hop Gard. (1578), 52. The chynkes creuises, and open ioyntes of your Loftes being not close byrthed, will deuoure the seedes of them.
1627. Capt. Smith, Seaman’s Gram., ii. 5. When you haue berthed or brought her vp to the planks.
c. 1850. Rudim. Navig. (Weale), 96. To berth up. A term generally used for working up a topside or bulkhead with board or thin plank.
