hatchway
noun/ˈhæt͡ʃweɪ/
Etymology From hatch + way.
1
A means of passing through a wall or floor, having a hatch (especially on a ship); a doorway with a hatch rather than a door.
- Up through the great hatchways rimmed with racks of heavy shot, the watch below came pouring […]1924, Herman Melville, chapter 22, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
- Full-depth, hinged doors are provided on each side of the engine and generator housing, and hatchways are fitted in the roof over the engine.1958 January 23, “New Diesel-Electric Locomotives for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 20: