Moby-Dick: Fore-castle
Fore-castle
- the forward part of the vessel, under the deck, where the sailors live
- Defintion 2
The word fore-castle appears in the following sentences from Moby-Dick:
Chapter 1 > Paragraph 8 > Sentence 1:
No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the fore-castle, aloft there to the royal mast-head.
Chapter 1 > Paragraph 11 > Sentence 1:
Finally, I always go to sea as a sailor, because of the wholesome exercise and pure air of the fore-castle deck.
Chapter 32 > Paragraph 41 > Sentence 4:
I shall enumerate them by their fore-castle appellations; for possibly such a list may be valuable to future investigators, who may complete what I have here but begun.
Chapter 34 > Paragraph 6 > Sentence 10:
I am an officer; but, how I wish I could fish a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when I was before the mast.
Concordance for the word fore-castle from Moby-Dick.
