chain-locker

"Glory, glory, hallelujah," Mr. Murphy crooned in a deep, chain-locker voice, and fled from the skipper's wrath.

Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley 1918

"What's the name of this floating coffin?" he demanded in a chain-locker voice.

Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

A mouse could not have found its way below, except perhaps by the stove-pipe or the pipe leading down to the chain-locker.

The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

As her own ring-stopper and shank-painter were weak, the patent windlass unlocked, and the end of the cable not secured in the chain-locker, the _Ishmaelite_ walked calmly away with the anchor and a hundred fathoms of chain, which, at the next port, she sold as legitimate spoil of the sea.

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888

No matter what the condition of things is in the shipping world; though the man may have fought with energy to get his discharge accepted among the crowd at the "chain-locker;" though he be footsore and weary with "looking for a ship," when his money is done, out into the street he must go, if haply he may find a speculative boarding-master to receive him.

The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886

It further transpired that, months previous, when the cloud of impending battle overhung the ship's company, he and one of his comrades had met for prayer in the 'chain-locker'; and thus began a series of most remarkable meetings which, without one night's interruption, lasted for some twenty months.

George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God 1874

The air, still full of spindrift, was, despite our position only a few degrees north of the Line, chill enough to set one shuddering; the maindeck was all awash with the water that flew incessantly over the weather-bow and poured aft with the heaving of the ship, breaking into miniature cascades among the booms lashed in the waist, and over the lengths of cable stretched along the decks from the windlass to the chain-locker, swirling round the pumps and the foot of the mainmast, and gurgling and sobbing in the lee scuppers; the weather bulwarks were streaming with water; even the topsails were dark with wet: miniature showers were blowing away to leeward off the top of the galley and forward deck-house; and the few dry spots that were to be found here and there about the decks in sheltered places were white with encrusted salt.

The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" Harry Collingwood 1886