Berth vs Yerth - What's the difference?
berth | yerth |
A fixed bunk for sleeping in (caravans, trains, etc).
Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth .)
A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park.
(nautical) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
A job or position, especially on a ship.
(sports) Position or seed in a tournament bracket.
(sports) position on the field of play
* {{quote-news, year=2012
, date=December 29
, author=Paul Doyle
, title=Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle
, work=The Guardian
(dialectal, dated) earth
* {{quote-book, year=1875, author=Various, title=Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Vol. XV., No. 85. January, 1875., chapter=, edition=
, passage=Maybe the great anes o' the yerth get sic a forlethie (surfeit ) o' grand'ur 'at they're for nae mair, an' wad perish like the brute beast. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Ellen Glasgow, title=The Battle Ground, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Den he drap right ter de yerth , en I des stop long enough ter put a tin bucket on my haid 'fo' I began ter crawl atter Marse Dan. }}
As nouns the difference between berth and yerth
is that berth is a fixed bunk for sleeping in (caravans, trains, etc) while yerth is (dialectal|dated) earth.As a verb berth
is to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth.berth
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* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Olivier Giroud then entered the fray and Walcott reverted to his more familiar berth on the right wing, quickly creating his side's fifth goal by crossing for Giroud to send a plunging header into the net from close range.}}
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