NOUN
- living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed
How To Use fo'c'sle In A Sentence
- Reuben Male, the captain of the fo'c'sle and an inventive type, had worked with Old Murray the sailmaker to make up these packs for all the men, so naturally the seamen called them Male Bags. The Terror
- She has even a bath-room -- a main cabin with two cabins off it, your man could berth in the fo'c'sle which is big enough for twenty like him. The Beach of Dreams
- Malahini had begun shoving her bow and fo'c'sle head under the bigger ones, and at times her waist was filled rail-high with water. THE PEARLS OF PARLAY
- Malahini had begun shoving her bow and fo'c'sle head under the bigger ones, and at times her waist was filled rail-high with water. THE PEARLS OF PARLAY
- Could a captain of the fo'c'sle, a captain of the foretop, and a blacksmith sail HMS Terror almost two hundred miles south through a maze of leads? The Terror
- Nor had Francis Crozier trusted Lieutenant George Henry Hodgson, his captain of the fo'c'sle, Reuben Male, or Erebus captain of the foretop Robert Sinclair since that day of near mutiny back at Hospital Camp more than a month earlier. The Terror
- What she sings on the Mortal Coil version is neither 'fox' nor 'fo'c'sle' but something akin to 'forsale'. Readers' Reviews
- Reuben Male, captain of the fo'c'sle, had watch and work-party officer duty, and Irving found him by following the faint glow to the other man's lantern on the port side. The Terror
- A trawl through online lyric sites tells me that the jury is still out on whether Buckley sings 'fox' or 'fo'c'sle'. Readers' Reviews
- If she comes out of there," he said, "hard and snappy, putting us to windward of the boats, it's likely there'll be empty bunks in steerage and fo'c'sle. Chapter 17
