forecastle
- n living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed
- Into the monotonous orchestration of the forecastle's night sounds crept a small cracking note, a rip, a split, a smothered crash.
- On the forecastle deck, the King's tent stood in the somnolent heat.
- The other, exploding in the forecastle, killed 23 men, wounded 70.