Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cabin situated in the forward part of a vessel.
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Examples
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The fore-cabin was washed and cleaned up till the Ripolin paint and the brass shone with equal brilliance; Rönne decorated the workroom with signal flags, and the good old "Happy Christmas" greeted us in a transparency over the door of the saloon.
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In the rather severe rolling the collar of the mast in the fore-cabin was loosened a little; this let the water in, and there was a slight flooding of Lieutenant Nilsen's cabin and mine.
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At five o'clock the engine was stopped, and all hands assembled in the fore-cabin, leaving only the man at the wheel on deck.
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When, on leaving Norway, it was a question of finding a good place for our twenty pairs of ski, we found we should have to share our own quarters with them; they were all disposed under the ceiling of the fore-cabin.
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I huddle on my clothes, go down into the fore-cabin, get shaved by the barber, and wash myself.
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The menials must have wept together in the kitchen precincts whilst the master and mistress took a last wild embrace in the drawing-room; they must have hung round each other in the fore-cabin, whilst their principals broke their hearts in the grand saloon.
The Virginians 2006
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The prisoner had been placed in the fore-cabin, where he remained quiet, silent, apparently deaf and dumb.
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The prisoner had been placed in the fore-cabin, where he remained quiet, silent, apparently deaf and dumb.
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The prisoner remained quiet in the fore-cabin, and as he had been a sailor it appeared that the motion of the vessel might produce on him a salutary reaction.
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The prisoner remained quiet in the fore-cabin, and as he had been a sailor it appeared that the motion of the vessel might produce on him a salutary reaction.
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