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.
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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.
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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.
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It soon reached the spirit-room hatches, which were underneath, and the powder magazine bulkhead.
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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.
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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
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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.
bilby commented on the word spirit-room
For everyone else it's bring your own ghost.
January 17, 2016