forecastle deck

noun

, Nautical.

a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.

First recorded in 1850–55

Alderson, Smith, Neidlinger, and Higgins were grouped together on the forecastle deck in amiable chat.

Maseden, feeling oddly remote and unclassed among men of his own race, followed the second officer to the forecastle deck.

Then he saw that the forecastle deck had been torn away in line with the forward bulkhead of the fore hold.

"If you shoot me you wound your own hand," and then he went back to his post on the forecastle deck.

On the forecastle deck the mate and some men stood watching our approach, with ropes ready to throw out to us.

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