Meaning of люк | Babel Free

Definitions

hatch, hatchway, trapdoor

inanimate, masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“Our rescuer looked from one to another of us with grave satisfaction, and then motioned to us to follow him through the trap-door and out on to the floor of the ocean.”

“Ces trente caronades, soit qu’on prévît une tempête, soit plutôt qu’on voulût donner une figure débonnaire au navire, étaient à la serre, c’est-à-dire fortement amarrées en dedans par de triples chaînes et la volée appuyée aux écoutilles tamponnées;”

These thirty carronades—whether in anticipation of a storm or simply to give the ship a peaceful appearance—were fastened in place by triple chains in such a way that the muzzles were pressing against the tightly sealed hatches.

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