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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An apartment where bread is kept, especially such an apartment in a ship, made water-tight, and sometimes lined with tin to keep out rats.
Examples
“The latter part of this address was directed to the waiter, who had returned with a quartern of brandy, which Crowe, snatching eagerly, started into his bread-room at one cant.”
“He ordered the waiter, who showed them into a parlour, to bear a hand, ship his oars, mind his helm, and bring alongside a short allowance of brandy or grog, that he might cant a slug into his bread-room, for there was such a heaving and pitching, that he believed he should shift his ballast.”
“Panurge hearing this, his breech began to make buttons; so he slunk in in an instant, and went to hide his head down in the bread-room among the musty biscuits and the orts and scraps of broken bread.”
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“At noon-day the water rose and beat the bulk-heads of the bread-room, powder-room, and forepiece, all to pieces; thus she continued till three, and then the sea came up on the upper deck, and soon after she began to settle.”
“He kept the ship's biscuits or bread, in the bread-room, a sort of dark cabin below the gun-deck.”
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
“The bread or biscuit which was stowed in bags in the bread-room in the hold, soon lost its hardness at sea, becoming soft and wormy, so that the sailors had to eat it in the dark.”
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
“Perhaps another went further on to the bread-room, where she might even be permitted to cut bread with the bread-cutting machine.”
“The crew shared the money which was found in the bread-room, and which filled nine chests, amounting to about 3,700 Spanish dollars.”
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“And, first, I found that all the ship's provisions were dry and untouched by the water, and, being very well disposed to eat, I went to the bread-room and filled my pockets with biscuit, and ate it as I went about other things, for I had no time to lose.”
“Happily, MacMuir himself discovered the affair on the eve of its perpetration, overhearing two men talking in the bread-room, and he ran to the cabin with the sweat standing out on his forehead.”
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