forecastle 的定义
Nautical.
- a superstructure at or immediately aft of the bow of a vessel, used as a shelter for stores, machinery, etc., or as quarters for sailors.
- any sailors' quarters located in the forward part of a vessel, as a deckhouse.
- the forward part of the weather deck of a vessel, especially that part forward of the foremast.
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- No vestige was left of her stern or forecastle, both of which were before so very conspicuous.
- He reached the forward deck, and was already climbing the forecastle ladder, when he heard someone speaking near him.
- The whole ship's company consisted of an immense multitude, there being in the forecastle alone 600 seamen.
- But when one comes to look for real forecastle songs, written by a sailor, and smelling of pitch and tar, one finds very few.
- One struck our taffrail, and another killed a man on the forecastle; but our rigging escaped.