Definition of "fore-cabin" [fore-cabin]

• A cabin situated in the forward part of a vessel. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "When, on leaving Norway, it was a question of finding a good place for our twenty pairs of ski, we found we should have to share our own quarters with them; they were all disposed under the ceiling of the fore-cabin."
• "The fore-cabin was washed and cleaned up till the Ripolin paint and the brass shone with equal brilliance; Rönne decorated the workroom with signal flags, and the good old "Happy Christmas" greeted us in a transparency over the door of the saloon."
• "At five o'clock the engine was stopped, and all hands assembled in the fore-cabin, leaving only the man at the wheel on deck."