Crossword-Solution: FORECASTLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Forecastle | n. | A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks. |
| Forecastle | n. | That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels. |
| Forecastle | n. | In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel, under the deck, where the sailors live. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “FORECASTLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Part of a vessel where the sailors live. | 1 answer |
| Ship's deck sometimes reduced to six letters | 1 answer |
| The forward part of a ship below the deck | 1 answer |
| The front part of a ship below the deck | 1 answer |
| Upper deck near the bow | 1 answer |
| prominent feature | 12 answers |
| prow | 15 answers |
| forefront | 32 answers |
| SHIP, part of | 33 answers |
| DECK ___ | 50 answers |
| Quarters | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FORECASTLE (5)
The boy, also in due time, passed from the forecastle to the cabin, spent a tempestuous manhood, and returned from his world-wanderings, to grow old, and die, and mingle his dust with the natal earth.
Ere he had scarce finished his little speech he had turned and was limping off toward the forecastle with the very apparent intention of forestalling any further conversation.
Later two of the seamen fell to fighting in the forecastle, with the result that one of them was badly wounded with a knife, and the other had to be put in irons.
She was not long in discovering the cause of the apparently deserted condition of the steamer, for in the forecastle she found the sailors, who had evidently been left to guard the ship, deep in drunken slumber.
Now leaning on the netting of the forecastle, now on the taffrail, I devoured with eagerness the soft foam which whitened the sea as far as the eye could reach; and how often have I shared the emotion of the majority of the crew, when some capricious whale raised its black back above the waves! The poop of the vessel was crowded in a moment.
Quotes with FORECASTLE (2)
Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been silent and fuddled with sleep all my life. In spite of all, I know now that at least it is better to go always towards the summer, towards those burning seas of light; to sit at night in the forecastle lost in an unfamiliar dream, when the spirit becomes filled with stars, instead of wounds, and good and compassionate and tender. To sail into an unknown spring, or receive one's b…
When I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head. True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow. And at first, this sort of thing is unpleasant enough. It touches one's sense of honor, particularly if you come of an old established family in the land, the van Rensselaers, or Randolphs, or Hardicanutes. And more than all, if just p…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1948–2019).