locker

Divisions in cabins and store-rooms.

♦ Boatswain's locker. A chest in small craft wherein material for working upon rigging is kept.

♦ Chain-locker or chain-well, where the chain-cables are kept; best abreast the main-mast, as central weight, but often before the fore-mast.

♦ Davy Jones' locker. The bottom of the sea, where nothing is lost, because you know where it is.

♦ Shot-lockers, near the pump-well in the hold. Also, the receptacle round the coamings of hatchways.

← lockage × locket →

Locker
·noun One who, or that which, locks. II. Locker ·noun A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, ·e...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
shot-locker
A compartment built up in the hold to contain the shot. ...

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Locker-Lampson, Frederick
(1821-1895) Poet, s. of the sec. of Greenwich Hospital, held appointments in Somerset House and the...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
david jones's locker
The sea. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
davy jones's locker
The ocean; the common receptacle for all things thrown overboard; it is a phrase for death or the ot...

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