Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a number of the crew who are stationed on the forecastle of a man-of-war.
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Examples
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A forecastleman, addressing a petty officer, inquired how she could hail from San Francisco, then belonging to the United States, and fly the Peruvian flag.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay
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"Hallo, what's the matter?" here came growling from a forecastleman awakened from his deck-doze by Billy's raised voice.
Billy Budd 1924
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