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What is a coaming?

What is a coaming? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A raised frame, designed to deflect or prevent entry of water, around an opening (e.g., a hatch or skylight) in a flat surface, such as a roof or deck.
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She opened the hatch, stepped over the coaming and closed it without looking away.
Drucker's seat belt broke and his forehead slammed into the uncushioned coaming at the bottom of the windshield frame.
I dropped further down, below the coaming and into the hold.
The engine compartment extends aft and has a raised coaming above the well deck to the height of the bulwarks.
The accumulated water downflooded from the factory deck over the coaming of the open engine room door into the engine room.
Sitting up on the coaming, spring sun in our eyes, the thrumming of the sail above us, we were as happy as the coots and grebes fossicking around in the reeds.

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