FORECASTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forecastle mean? 

• FORECASTLE (noun)
  The noun FORECASTLE has 1 sense:

1. living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed

  Familiarity information: FORECASTLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORECASTLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fo'c'sle; forecastle

Hypernyms ("forecastle" is a kind of...):

living quarters; quarters (housing available for people to live in)

Holonyms ("forecastle" is a part of...):

ship (a vessel that carries passengers or freight)

 Context examples 

“Spoil forecastle hands, make devils. That's my belief.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Once, he tried to arouse himself from his lethargy, and went forward into the forecastle with the sailors.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He rallies his men upon the forecastle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Johnson I found lying full length on the forecastle head, staring at the troubled churn of the forefoot, and I remembered with horror the suggestion Wolf Larsen had made.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He was good company, I won’t deny it, and he had wonderful polite ways with him for a sailor man, so that I think there must have been a time when he knew more of the poop than the forecastle.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the forecastle of an emigrant ship.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“We're all forecastle hands, you mean,” snapped Silver.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But making an extra trip to the galley a little later, I was gladdened by the sight of Harrison staggering weakly from the rigging to the forecastle scuttle.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Thornbury, Walters, Hackett, Baddlesmere, you are with Sir Oliver on the forecastle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On ships at sea he had always been in the forecastle, the steerage, or in the black depths of the coal-hold, passing coal.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)