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focsle

focsle is the alternative spelling of fo'c'sle.

Meaning of fo'c'sle

Noun

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

  1. (informal) forecastle.
    • 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.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...

Forms of focsle

pluralfocsles

Questions about focsle

What is focsle the alternative spelling of?
Focsle is the alternative spelling of fo'c'sle.

Words near focsle in the dictionary

  1. focometer
  2. focometers
  3. focometric
  4. focometry
  5. FOCs
  6. focsle
  7. focsles
  8. focus
  9. focus group
  10. focus groups
  11. focus pocus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: focsle (page history and authors); fo'c'sle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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