Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ship-building, a short open pipe extending from the outside plating to the interior just inside the inner bottom, the inner end of which is closed by a sea-valve placed in a position accessible from the interior of the vessel.
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Examples
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In turn, he helped the steward up with the Ancient Mariner's sea-chest.
CHAPTER XV 2010
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My belongings were packed snugly in a sea-chest, and I was all ready to buy my ticket and ride down on the train to Oakland, when Neil Partington arrived in Benicia.
YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF 2010
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Every sea-chest broke open, every sea-bag turned out, and whiskey bottles, knuckle-dusters, sling-shots, bowie-knives, an 'guns chucked overside by the armful.
CHAPTER XL 2010
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He came back, dragging a heavy sea-chest, which he deposited on top of the trap.
Chapter 33 2010
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He went over to Liverpool to rummage in his great sea-chest for the flying-fish
Mary Barton 2010
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Placing it in the custody of a sailor, he returned below and was helped up with his sea-chest by the steward.
CHAPTER XV 2010
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Remained only a sea-chest and two suit-cases, themselves too large for the porthole but bare of contents.
CHAPTER X 2010
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He looked for his clothes, that he might arise and extricate himself from this den of horrors; but his clothes were nowhere to be seen, nor did he see his portmanteau, or sea-chest.
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Hartley accordingly proceeded to inform him of the particulars preceding his birth, and those which followed after it; while Middlemas, seated on a sea-chest, listened with inimitable composure to a tale which went to root up the flourishing hopes of wealth which he had lately so fondly entertained.
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Then he came down from the mast-head and opening his sea-chest, pulled out a bag of blue cotton, from which he took a powder like ashes.
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