The Collaborative International Dictionary
Locker \Lock"er\, n.
One who, or that which, locks.
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A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock.
Chain locker (Naut.), a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables.
Davy Jones's locker, or Davy's locker. See Davy Jones.
Shot locker, a compartment where shot are deposited.
--Totten.
Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) a space in the forward part of the ship, typically beneath the bow in front of the foremost collision bulkhead, that contains the anchor chain when the anchor is secured for sea.
Usage examples of "chain locker".
The rattling ceased as abruptly as it had begun, the fastening doubtless torn from the floor of the chain locker.
The next thing I knew I was being dragged to my feet and a voice, Dillon's voice, said something about the chain locker.
An electric windlass is in itself a pretty noiseless machine: when weighing anchor all the racket comes from four sources - the chain passing through the hawse-pipe, the clacking of the brake pawl over the successive stops, the links passing over the drum itself and the clattering of the chain as it falls into the chain locker.
But there was nothing he could do, there was nothing anybody could do, to muffle the rattle and clank as the chain scraped through the hawsehole into the chain locker.
Every time they latched him into the chain locker for the night, he would wait until the footsteps had died away and then try the door.
On the basis of her trip to the chain locker alone the lieutenant faced the brig.
Milbrand, I said the tow line was attached to the reel in the Sun King's port chain locker.
In the port chain locker of the Sun King, the capstan crew awaits the signal to reel in the line.
Stay away from my men, and if you cause trouble, I'll lock you in the chain locker, which is far less comfortable.
He was not one of those who'd raped her and she didn't have the heart to kill him just like that, so she dragged him to the starboard anchor's chain locker, stripped him of weaponry, chucked him in, gently closed the hatch and dogged it.