lubber-hole

As the audience left their chairs for a walk on the deck, Mr. and Mrs. Mingo sprang into the fore-rigging, climbing the shrouds, and over the futtock-shrouds, disdaining to crawl through the lubber-hole to the top.

Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Oliver Optic 1859

As this was said, Cuffe descended through the same lubber-hole and soon appeared on deck.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

In three minutes more, Captain Cuffe was in the top in question; having passed through the lubber-hole, as every sensible man does, in a frigate, more especially when she stands up for want of wind.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

After being absent from the top about two hours, he, to the surprise of Dunlap, who was likewise on the fore-top, raised his head through the lubber-hole; Dunlap inquiring where he had been, he told him he had been cruising for a better birth; that after swimming about the wreck for a considerable time, he had returned to the fore-shrouds, and crawling in on the catharpins, had actually been sleeping there more than an hour, and appeared greatly refreshed.

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a very large degree upon the seaman who knew the ropes -- who could take his turn at the wheel, scud aloft without going through the lubber-hole, and act promptly and sailorly in emergency.

The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

"Yes; and we used to climb her shrouds, we boys, and get through the lubber-hole, before we could spell her name out.

Not Pretty, but Precious Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford 1878

There's not room to lie down here, "assented the sailor, glancing slowly round;" an ', to tell' ee the plain truth, I feel as funky about trustin 'myself again to that serpent-like creeper as I felt the first time I went up through the lubber-hole the year I went to sea. "

The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar Francis B. Pearson 1859