fo'c's'le
/ˈfoʊk.səl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of fo'c'sle.
Example Sentences
- "1881, Thomas Edward Brown, Fo’c’s’le yarns: including Betsy Lee, and other poems (Macmillan, reprint of 1873 publication quoted above), main title"
- "Now I had been expressly forbidden to go into the men’s quarters, the fo’c’s’le. It was so bad a place to be in — leaky, dark, and mephitic — that one would hardly have thought any prohibition necessary, but there was cheerfulness and animated conversation there. Thus I became a fo’c’s’le hand, and never but once — and that only for a short passage — have I filled a steward’s place since. In becoming a denizen of the fo’c’s’le I entered unconsciously upon the fourth great change in my life."
- "1997, David Kasanof and Matthew P. Murphy, From the Fo’c’s’le, main title (Sheridan House, Inc.; ISBN 1‒57409‒034‒8)"
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfoʊk.səl/