Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A room or compartment in a ship in which spirits are kept for the use of the officers and crew.
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Examples
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Hoseman, Axeman, or Smotherer, or belonging to the Carpenter's gang, or detailed as a Sentinel over boats 'falls or spirit-room, will lash and carry up two hammocks and stow them in the nettings on his way to
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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In vessels partially armed with shell-guns, the best place, perhaps, for these rooms is immediately forward of the spirit-room, but not communicating with it; and in those armed entirely with such guns, the additional shell-rooms necessary may be, perhaps, more conveniently placed abaft, and adjoining the delivering-passage of the forward magazine, than elsewhere.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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I must do the Gaul the justice to declare, that during my confinement, he behaved like a gentleman, in supplies from the pantry and spirit-room.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
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It soon reached the spirit-room hatches, which were underneath, and the powder magazine bulkhead.
A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman
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Soldiers and sailors were penetrating even into the spirit-room, broaching casks, staving others, and drinking till they fell exhausted.
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The captain was killed instantly by the fall of a top-gallant yard, which crushed his skull; while the sailors, who in such moments seem possessed by utter recklessness, broke into the spirit-room and drank to excess.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
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Soldiers and sailors were penetrating even into the spirit-room, broaching casks, staving others and drinking till they fell exhausted.
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Indian Chief, in Charleston harbor, came a stirring account of a night of mutiny aboard, due to the crew breaking into the spirit-room and possessing themselves of its contents, then going mad with drink.
Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911
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This brought the engineers on deck and the coal-passers with them; and the coal-passers -- "a beach-combin 'lot," he called them -- led in breaking into the spirit-room, and before long pretty much all the men of the crew were as drunk as lords.
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To this end all my previous plans had been arranged; but, on my being placed _hors de combat_ by my wounds, Captain Gruise, on whom the command of the prize devolved, chose to interpose his own judgment and content himself with the _Esmeralda_ alone; the reason assigned being that the English had broken into her spirit-room and were getting drunk, whilst the Chilians were disorganized by plundering.
The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. Vol. I Thomas Barnes Cochrane Dundonald 1873
bilby commented on the word spirit-room
For everyone else it's bring your own ghost.
January 17, 2016