shaft alley

American  

noun

Nautical.

1. an enclosure on a ship for housing a propeller shaft and a walk for oilers.

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Example Sentences

He traced these seams and found that they ended in a coaming at each side of the shaft alley.

From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry

"Where's that man that's hurt?" he asked as he came, slowly, from an inspection of the burned-out bearings down the shaft alley.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

Minion was nursing a stubbornly warm bearing in the port shaft alley.

From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Hoskins, Gayle Porter

I clane forgot the little companion hatch at the ind av the shaft alley.

From Cappy Ricks Retires by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)

Out of the shaft alley came Scraggs with a rush, tossing his wrench aside the better to climb the ladder.

From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Grant, Gordon