forecastle

IPA: fˈɔrkæsʌɫ

Examples of "forecastle" in Sentences

Before I shipped that young fellow, my forecastle was a rat-pit of quarrels.
But I will say, contrary to my expectations, the Elsinore's forecastle is well found.
The sick man whom they had left in the forecastle was a new hand who had shipped at Kingston.
The forecastle was a wild litter of spilt food and paraffin, lamps, unwashed dishes, tins of food, petrol-cans, ropes, sails, and gear.
Between these and the forecastle was the between-decks, as high as the gun deck of a frigate; being six feet and a half, under the beams.
Inside the forecastle was the galley (or ship's kitchen) and quarters for such people as the boatswain, the carpenter, the cook and the master-archer.
There were also on each side of this deck, cabins for the marine soldiers, and twenty stables for horses; in the forecastle was a fresh-water cistern which held 253 hogsheads; and near it was a large tank of sea-water, in which fish were kept.
The Chancellor's hull is three-fourths immerged; besides the three masts and the bowsprit, to which the whale-boat was suspended, the poop and the forecastle are the only portions that now are visible; and as the intervening section of the deck is quite below the water, these appear to be connected only by the framework of the netting that runs along the vessel's sides.