lower hold
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
In this compartment all the ship's spare gear and bos'un's stores were kept, and the lower hold held ten tons of the ship's coal.
From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.
Neale and Mr. Howbridge ran from the motor compartment in the lower hold of the boat.
From The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat How they sailed away, what happened on the voyage, and what was discovered by Hill, Grace Brooks
Meanwhile he had everything set in readiness to fight, and all the sick were carried to the lower hold.
From The Red True Story Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)
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