sick bay
a hospital or dispensary, especially aboard ship.
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How to use sick bay in a sentence
The sick were cared for by the doctor and his attentive sick-bay man, assisted by all the officers.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves | W.H.G. KingstonBack the way he had come, back toward the sick bay, he pitched.
The Wolf Cub | Patrick CaseySince Mura was in the isolation of ship sick bay the stripping of his cabin was a relatively simple job.
Plague Ship | Andre NortonAll my men at quarters but West, who was on shore when we sailed, the men say on leave,—and Collins in the sick bay.
She had a dreamy remembrance of the first day or two of her sojourn in what the girls called “the sick bay.”
Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall | Annie Roe Carr
British Dictionary definitions for sickbay
/ (ˈsɪkˌbeɪ) /
a room or area for the treatment of the sick or injured, as on board a ship or at a boarding school
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