Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The front or forward part of the hold of a ship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) The forward part of the hold of a ship.
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- noun nautical The
front orforward part of the hold of aship . - verb transitive To
hold orbelieve beforehand;assume ;anticipate ;predict ;presage ;prognosticate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Several of them repeatedly took the opportunity of tumbling into the forehold, when the hatches were open; but a fall of 25 feet did not seem to trouble them in the least.
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Several of them repeatedly took the opportunity of tumbling into the forehold, when the hatches were open; but a fall of 25 feet did not seem to trouble them in the least.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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Borden, you and Yorke go up and lay that engineer in irons in the forehold.
The Pirate Shark Elliott Whitney
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Strike it down into the forehold, Jacobs -- but get out a blue shirt or two, and a Scotch cap for the young whelp first, if he wants to save that smooth toggery of his for his mammy.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various
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She hailed back that she had water in her afterhold and fire in her forehold, and gave us the number of her wounded.
The U-boat hunters 1912
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So I spares him, but I whales the other last one a couple in a soft spot and chases him, till he took a high dive too into the forehold; and I could also hear him rattlin 'and bouncin' around after he struck the cocoanuts or the pineapples, whichever it was.
Sonnie-Boy's People 1912
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Two men were set to transferring powder and arms from the forehold to our captain's cabin.
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In the forehold were rebels who would sink us all to the bottom of the sea if they could.
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I knew there was no other bulkhead in the ship but the collision bulkhead separating the forepeak from the forehold.
Lord Jim 1900
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The mail-bags were thundering into the forehold, and the red-haired girl was watching them.
The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900
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