fo'c'sle

plural fo'c'sles · alternative fo'c's'le · alternative fo'c'stle

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   In the stewards’ fo’c’sle were all sorts and conditions of men; including a Victorian known as ‘Chook’.

   1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 147

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   We loafed moodily about the well-deck, between the fo'c'sle and the high midship bridge structure […] "When shall we get something to eat?" I asked Boldini, as he emerged from the fo'c'sle hatch.

   1924 October, Percival Christopher Wren, “The Gay Romantics”, in Beau Geste, London: John Murray, →OCLC; republished London: John Murray, […], February 1928, →OCLC, part II (The Mystery of the “Blue Water”), § 5, pages 197–198