Forecastle: alternatives and connections

A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situatio…

Originally, one appointed to the command of a burg (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain atta…

An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).

The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle.

Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle.

To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of co…

A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-w…

Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag.

A compound move of the king and castle. See Castle, v. i.

Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -…

Control; power over something; sway; influence; as, to have command over one's temper or voice; the fort has command of the bridge.

A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.

The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two…

A vessel which has a deck or decks; -- used esp. in composition; as, a single-decker; a three-decker.

A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.

A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communica…

Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, and the like; a sudden turn in a line of coast or course of a river; als…

A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.