fo'c'stle

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfoʊk.səl/
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Noun

fo'c'stle (plural fo'c'stles)

  1. Alternative form of fo'c'sle.
    • 1893, John Arthur Barry, Steve Brown's Bunyip: And Other Stories, page 34:
      A very good table was kept, and the dog-basket and menavelings from it alone would have supplied the fo'c'stle twice over.