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ˈforecastle
Also written fo'c'sle, after sailors' pronunc. |ˈfəʊks(ə)l|.
[f. fore- + castle.]
1. Naut. A short raised deck at the fore end of a vessel. In early use raised like a castle to command the enemy's decks. Obs. exc. arch. or Hist.
c1400Destr. Troy 5657 The forcastels full of fuerse men of armys. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xxiii. 440 The fore castell of whyght crystal. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia iii. vi. 62 Targets..about the forepart of our Boat like a fore⁓castle. 1748Anson's Voy. i. iii. 29 The forecastle was manned with its customary watch. 1805in Nicolas Disp. Nelson (1846) VII. 203 note, Her people still firing from her tops, forecastle and lower-deck. 1863Longfellow Wayside Inn, Saga of Olaf xix. vi, On the forecastle Ulf the Red watched the lashing of the Ships.
2. The fore part of a ship (see quots. 1704, 1867). to ride forecastle in, i.e. with bows under.
1490Caxton Eneydos xxxi. 116 Theyr chyeff maryner..was halfe a slepe vpon the forcastell. a1529Skelton Col. Cloute 1253 The forecastell of my shyp Shall glyde, and smothely slyp Out of the waves wod Of the stormy flod. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 232 Sometimes the one end, as the fore-castle, sometimes the other, as the sterne. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn., Fore-castle of a Ship is that part where the Fore-Mast stands, and 'tis divided from the rest of the Floor by a Bulk-head; that part of the Fore-castle which is aloft, and not in the Hold, is called the Prow. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. 9 Our Ship rid Forecastle in. 1794Nelson 26 Oct. in Nicolas Disp. (1845) I. 499 We are riding forecastle in. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Forecastle..is now applied in men-of-war to that part of the upper deck forward of the after-shroud.
3. In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel, under the deck, where the sailors live.
1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast ix. 19 No man can..know what sailors are, unless he has lived in the forecastle with them. 1888W. C. Russell Death Ship I. xviii. 251 A ship of which there were a thousand stories afloat in every forecastle throughout the world.
4. attrib. and Comb. Chiefly attributive (of or pertaining to the forecastle), as forecastle-deck, forecastle-hatch, forecastle-joke, forecastle-netting, forecastle-rail, forecastle-song, forecastle-yarn; also forecastle-man, a sailor stationed on the forecastle.
1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World (1757) 229 The *forecastle conversation.
1851H. Melville Whale i. 5 The..pure air of the *forecastle deck.
1869C. Gibbon R. Gray vi, He laid down near the *forecastle hatch.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Forecastle-jokes, practical tricks played upon greenhorns.
1804Naval Chron. XII. 246 Except the *Forecastlemen. 1823J. F. Cooper Pioneer xx, He handles an axe much the same as a forecastleman his marlin-spike.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Forecastle-nettings.
Ibid., *Forecastle-rail, the rail extended on stanchions across the after-part of the forecastle-deck in some ships.
1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xxiv. 243 Their old *forecastle songs.
1873[T. E. Brown] (title), Betsy Lee: a *fo'c's'le yarn. |