focsleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

fo'c's'le (plural fo'c's'les)

1. Alternative form of fo'c'sle.
   • 1873, Thomas Edward Brown, Betsy Lee, a fo’c’s’le yarn, main title:
   • 1881, Thomas Edward Brown, Fo’c’s’le yarns: including Betsy Lee, and other poems (Macmillan, reprint of 1873 publication quoted above), main title
   • 1900, Frank Thomas Bullen, With Christ at Sea: A Personal Record of Religious Experiences on Board Ship for Fifteen Years […] (Stokes), pages 20, 21, and 22:

     Now I had been expressly forbidden to go into the men’s quarters, the fo’c’s’le. It was so bad a place to be in — leaky, dark, and mephitic — that one would hardly have thought any prohibition necessary, but there was cheerfulness and animated conversation there.

     Thus I became a fo’c’s’le hand, and never but once — and that only for a short passage — have I filled a steward’s place since.

     In becoming a denizen of the fo’c’s’le I entered unconsciously upon the fourth great change in my life.

   • 1997, David Kasanof and Matthew P. Murphy, From the Fo’c’s’le, main title (Sheridan House, Inc.; ISBN 1‒57409‒034‒8)

アナグラム

• coself

語源

Contraction of forecastle.

発音

• enPR: fōkʹsəl, IPA: /ˈfəʊk.səl/

名詞

fo'c'sle (plural fo'c'sles)

1. (informal, nautical) forecastle.
   • 1924 October, Percival Christopher Wren, “The Gay Romantics”, in Beau Geste, London: John Murray, →OCLC; republished London: John Murray, […], February 1928, →OCLC, part II (The Mystery of the “Blue Water”), § 5, pages 197–198:

     We loafed moodily about the well-deck, between the fo'c'sle and the high midship bridge structure […] "When shall we get something to eat?" I asked Boldini, as he emerged from the fo'c'sle hatch.

アナグラム

• coself

名詞

foc's'le (plural foc's'les)

1. Alternative form of fo'c'sle (“forecastle”).
   • 1892, Rudyard Kipling, “[From Tideway to Tideway.] Half-a-Dozen Pictures.”, in Letters of Travel (1892–1913), London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1920, →OCLC, page 72:

     her deck from poop to the break of the foc's'le goes under in gray-green water level

アナグラム

• coself