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forecastle
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tags: [nautical]
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Definition:the forward part of a ship below (or possibly on) the deck, traditionally the crew's living quarters
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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.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Man with the Twisted Lip
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Finally, I always go to sea as a sailor, because of the wholesome exercise and pure air of the fore-castle deck. For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle. He thinks he breathes it first; but not so.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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I purposely passed within a boat or two's length of the floating Custom House, and so out to catch the stream, alongside of two emigrant ships, and under the bows of a large transport with troops on the forecastle looking down at us.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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He was an old bird, reputed to be fifty years old, and he had lived a ribald life and acquired the vigorous speech of a ship’s fo’c’sle.
John Steinbeck. East of Eden, p.383 (1952)
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