escotilla
/eskoˈtiʝa/ · B2 · noun · f
hatch
🚪⚓ escotilla = hatch; sounds like 'a scot's tiller' climbing down through a deck door
Spanish escotilla is the opening in a ship's deck, from escota (a sheet or cut-out opening). Link the 'esco-' start to 'escape': a hatch is the way out or in. Same word covers a spacecraft's airlock hatch.