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
Fuel and water would be in the lower hold under the platforms; hatches and ladderways are arranged to permit fueling the ship.
From Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran by Howard I. (Howard Irving) Chapelle
Had a fire in the lower hold in a lot of turpentine, and when they put that out we found her cargo had shifted and she was down by the head about six feet.
From A List To Starboard 1909 by Francis Hopkinson Smith
The Neshamony had come in for provisions and gone out again, and the Rancocus would stand up without watching, with her hundred and eleven barrels of oil in her lower hold.
From The Crater by James Fenimore Cooper
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