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Fo'c'sle

noun

Living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed. Synonym: forecastle.

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"Fo'c'sle" Quotes from Famous Books

... is howlin', an' t' west wind is yowlin', It's for t' farm lads at sea that us lasses mun pray; Tassey-Will o' t' new biggin, keepin' watch i' his riggin , Lile Jock i' his fo'c'sle, ...

— Songs of the Ridings • F. W. Moorman

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... on the ji'boom and cast the gaskets off the jib." He "lay out" as best he could and cast off the gaskets—he knew barely enough of yachting to understand an order here and there—and by the time he was back on the fo'c'sle head the Chinamen were at the jib ...

— Moran of the Lady Letty • Frank Norris

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... abaft the galley, enriched his vocabulary and broadened his point of view. There is no leveler like a ship's fo'c'sle, no better school of philosophy than that of men upon their "beam ends." There were many such—Poles, Slovaks, Roumanians, an Armenian or two, refugees, adventurers from America, old, young, dissolute, making ...

— The Vagrant Duke • George Gibbs

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... starboard fo'c'sle six-pounder and fire a shell in their direction," ordered the captain ...

— A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" • Russell Doubleday

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