the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.
n. the act or process of giving birth.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. See berthing.
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n. the process of giving birth
Word Usage
"I just think we lose sight sometimes of the fact that this [complications in birthing, that is] is nothing new, nothing that humans haven't faced even in the absence of hospitals for eons."