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forepeak
n. (context nautical English) The part of the hold of a ship within the angle of the bow
Usage examples of "forepeak".
If I kept the forepeak tank full of its bunker fuel and the Quest tangled with dangerous ice, the bow plating would be the first to rip.
Only the other day a learned Dutchman reproached me for having sprinkled eau de Cologne in the forepeak of HMS Shannon in my last book: the earliest English reference to eau de Cologne, said he, quoting the Oxford Dictionary, is in a letter of Byron's dated 1830.
That stumbling, lurching run from the forepeak, he dimly realised, had all but killed him.