Crossword clues for wardroom
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wardroom \Ward"room`\, n.
(Naut.) A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom.
--Totten.A room used by the citizens of a city ward, for meetings, political caucuses, elections, etc. [U. S.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 The living quarters of a ship designated for the commissioned officers other than the captain. 2 The commissioned officers of a ship, excluding the captain.
WordNet
n. military quarters for dining and recreation for officers of a warship (except the captain)
Wikipedia
The wardroom is the mess-cabin of naval commissioned officers above the rank of midshipman. The term the wardroom is also used to refer to ( metonymically) those individuals with the right to occupy that wardroom, meaning "the officers of the wardroom".
It provides a place of recreation as well as being a dining room. Usually, a galley or scullery adjoins the wardroom. Service is provided by stewards. There is usually a bar, where drinks can be purchased. Ships can be either "wet" or " dry": the former allowing the consumption of alcohol at sea, while the latter only allows alcohol when alongside at port, if at all. Ships of the United States Navy have not allowed alcohol consumption onboard since 1913.
Wardrooms have rules governing etiquette. Traditionally considered taboo are three topics: politics, religion, and sex (earlier guidebooks referred to the latter as ladies). On large ships in peacetime, talking about professional business is frowned upon. It is also considered inappropriate to perform work or to meet with subordinates in a wardroom. Typically, upon entering the wardroom at meal time, members ask permission from the most senior officer present before joining the table.
The ship's executive officer is usually the mess president. The commanding officer is normally not a member of the wardroom, but is invited to join the members for special occasions.
Usage examples of "wardroom".
Wardroom USS Archerfish The mouth of the White Sea In the Wardroom of the Archerfish, Chief Monday and Lieutenant Rockham were enjoying a short moment of peace.
Ceylon tea spilled onto the wardroom table, but the astrophysicist appeared not to notice.
He had found Beaumont fuming by the wardroom stove, his jacket drying on a chairback while he sipped repeatedly from a silver flask.
As senior, I had my choice of bunks and got first serving at morning and afternoon mess, and I supposedly controlled the wardroom, though I was aware my authority was precarious at best.
Four of the Cydonia Base habitat was a wardroom which served jointly as the galley, dining area, conference room, and recreation area.
Frost and Gregoire have locked it in the wardroom where they plan to do the probing.
The second officer made sure that both air locks were fast, and made his way to the long wardroom in the lower part of the ship.
The messman pattered into the empty wardroom and studied the uneaten sandwiches with disdain.
Sawle who had acted as wardroom messman aboard the Tigress, and had volunteered for this mission without even asking what it entailed.
Only in the privacy of the wardroom could middies release their natural tensions in horseplay.
A proudly overconscientious young Cub of the Khan, whiskers almost visibly atwitch with curiosity, led him to what would have been called the wardroom in a human capital ship, but no military courtesies were exchanged.
Yet, as Rick hastily hooked up the peegee finder on the table in the adjoining wardroom he could feel the stubborn skepticism beneath that gray mask of suffering.
She indicated the planetological file currently displayed on the wardroom screen.
In my last wardroom we decided Baltimore was the shiftiest place any of us ever saw, and we decided anyone who went through four years of that shit you did must have thought they were in Baltimore.
The first time that Grimes put in an appearance in the wardroom, for dinnip was ready for liftoff in three days.