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What is "sick-bay"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sick-bay

"forepart of a ship's main deck used as a hospital," 1580s, from sick (adj.) + bay (n.2), from the notion of a recessed space.

Usage examples of "sick-bay".

Duncan considered letting Galey, who had not come as he had, from a stay in sick-bay, carry more of the equip­ment.

Within half an hour Bert and I lay in bunks in borrowed pyjamas in the corvette's little sick-bay, each of us with two hot-water bottles pressed against us and a tot of rum in hot cocoa inside us.

All you will find in the sick-bay is an obstinate gleet with low fever and a reduced inguinal hernia: and that forearm.

ONE morning early in May, Stewart and I were freed from our leg irons and conducted t-o the place used as the sick-bay on the lower deck.