Definition of "fo'c's'le" [fo'c's'le]

• Variant of forecastle. (noun)

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• "It'll be dead of winter off the Horn, and a fo'c's'le full of lunatics and cripples to do the work."
• "Big John there's a sailorman, an 'the fo'c's'le' ll do him."
• "A man naked to the waste was coiling down a line on the fo'c's'le head."