berth
noun
a shelflike sleeping space, as on a ship, airplane, or railroad car.
was berthing
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past progressiveof berth.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Mac slept soundly on a table, and awoke in the morning to find the vessel was berthing at Lyttleton.
From The Tale of a Trooper by Clutha N. (Clutha Nantes) Mackenzie
Three minutes later I was berthing the car close to the lich-gate in the shade of sweet-smelling limes, that made a trembling screen of foliage within the churchyard wall.
From Berry And Co. by Dornford Yates
