foc'sle

Oops, sorry, what goes on in the foc'sle, stays in the foc'sle

Quick crossword No 12,704 2011

Prepare to lower the foc'sle and main pillage and plunder and put big hickeys on all the fair damsels!

Arrrr Ye Slimey Bilge Rats, 'Tis Talk Like A Pirate Day! 2004

I didn't quite care for the all-yellow crew, though - I like to hear a British or Yankee voice in the foc'sle; it's reassuring-like.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

He would go and sit down with them in the foc'sle, chatting with them rather like a brother than a high officer, yet without loss of dignity or respect.

Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

"Just a foc'sle tenor," Jason said and explained that he was on his way home from Singapore -- a conference on Data Protocols for the 21st

Joe Burke's Last Stand John Moncure Wetterau

But pistols and pikes had been sarved out, and when they came bundlin 'over into the foc'sle, we bundled 'em back into the Hugli, and you may be sure they wasn't exactly seaworthy when they got there.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

The baby language of Bludston would petrify the foc'sle of a tramp, steamer.

The Fortunate Youth 1914

It came right on over our bow, over our foc'sle head, over the forward gun.

The U-boat hunters 1912

The shield to the forward gun stood probably six feet above the foc'sle deck.

The U-boat hunters 1912

Then there was an interval -- an interval in which everybody fore and aft, appeared to be waiting for something; the something being at that precise moment standing at the foot of the foc'sle ladder, trying to screw its courage up.

More Cargoes 1897 1903