Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The apartment in a ship (steamer or sailing vessel) in which the charts, maps, instruments, etc., are kept.
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Examples
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Captain West, who in this bad weather sleeps in the chart-room, stood in the lee doorway of the house, through which the lamplight streamed on the frightened faces of the men.
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For two nights, one in the chart-room and one on the cabin sofa, I have soaked myself in sleep, and I am now almost stupid with excess of sleep.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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At the head of the stairs, passing along the tiny hall to go out the lee door of the chart-house, I glanced into the chart-room.
CHAPTER XXXVIII 2010
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He has so little to do in the working of the ship, taking his regular observations and working them up with such celerity, that he is rarely in the chart-room for any length of time.
CHAPTER XX 2010
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In the chart-room, glancing curiously at the chart, I measured the distance with my eye and decided that we were in the neighbourhood of fifteen miles off Cape Horn.
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On my way below a glance into the chart-room gave me the cue to the
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"I noticed Captain West, in the chart-room, as I came up, sleeping like a baby," I concluded.
CHAPTER XXXVIII 2010
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And it was told again, and by both of us, in the bright-lighted chart-room after the watches had been changed at eight bells.
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And there, in the chart-room, a redoubtable sailorman bent anxiously over a chart as he measured and calculated, and measured and calculated again, our position and our drift.
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Another peep into the chart-room showed me Captain West sleeping as before.
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