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lower hold

American  
[loh-er] / ˈloʊ ər /

noun

Nautical.
  1. the lowermost hold space in a hull having 'tween decks or a shelter deck.


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It may have fallen from the main deck, perhaps in a fire that consumed the ship, down to the lower hold.

From New York Times Jul. 15, 2010

We commenced to cut open the decks in different parts of the ship, but unfortunately for us our provisions were mostly in the lower hold and could not be come at.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chief Steward Slichow led his little command, less two third-class ration keepers thought to have been trapped in the lower hold, to a point two hundred meters from the steaming hull of the Peace State.

From The Talkative Tree by Horace Brown Fyfe

He now descended into the lower hold, and the blankets and bedding were hoisted up out of it.

From In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston

Now at this place space had been left to permit of the lower hold being reached.

From Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures by William H. C. Groome

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