Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The hatch next abaft the foremast on sailing-vessels, but generally forward of the foremast on steamers.

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Examples

  • Mugridge went down on the fore-hatch under three men; but he emerged from the mass like an eel, bleeding at the mouth, the offending shirt ripped into tatters, and sprang for the main-rigging.

    Chapter 21 2010

  • Here you see me without an ear, damaged in the fore-hatch, and with the larboard bow stove in-and how much do

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • They came back by way of Karachi by sea, when Kim took his first experience of sea-sickness sitting on the fore-hatch of a coasting-steamer, well persuaded he had been poisoned.

    Kim 2003

  • In the space forward on the main-deck we have the fore-hatch, and by the side of this a room entirely lined with zinc plates, which serves for storing furs.

    The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

  • Not to where they were in the fore-hatch -- he knew a thing or two better than that -- but to his cabin, and in a minute he comes up again with a revolver in each of his fists.

    Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

  • "Mainsail haul!" the canvas shakes; the long, cumbrous yard groans upon its bearings; there is a great whizzing of the cordage through the blocks; but, in the midst of it all, -- coming keenly to the captain's ear, -- a voice from the fore-hatch exclaims, "By G--, she touches!"

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various

  • Neither could succeed in shaking the other off; and as the two rolled and twisted together about the deck, now a mass of blood and gore, they gradually edged away from the thick of the fight, until they rolled together close to the fore-hatch; then, with one vigorous effort, the black cook, as if he had reserved his final _coup_ until he had wearied the other out, lifted the

    The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace

  • R---- spoke not in answer; but walking to the fore-hatch, descended into the forecastle, and we followed.

    A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

  • The cooks and stewards, their hands on the combing, filled the fore-hatch.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • And you lubbers below, wake up there! 'he exclaimed over the fore-hatch, firing a shot down below as he spoke.

    Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

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