See hammock-nettings.
·noun A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks. II. F...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Once a short deck placed in the fore-part of a ship above the upper deck; it was usually terminated,...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The fore-part of the upper deck at a vessel's bows. ...
Practical tricks played upon greenhorns. ...
Sailors who are stationed on the forecastle, and are generally, or ought to be, prime seamen. ...
The rail extended on stanchions across the after-part of the forecastle-deck in some ships. ...
A short deck forward above the upper deck, mostly used as a galley, but in some merchantmen a berthi...
A framework of stout rope-netting placed where necessary, to obstruct an enemy's boarders. ...
Take their distinguishing names according to their location in the ship, as forecastle, waist, quart...
Nettings sometimes placed over the hatchways instead of gratings, for security and circulation of ai...
The places allotted on the quarters for the stowage of hammocks, which, in action, serve to arrest m...
See top. ...
The hammock-nettings between the quarter-deck and forecastle. ...
See netting. ...
Slender bars of iron or wood, the lower ends of which are fixed in iron sockets at proper distances....