Word Meanings - CUBBRIDGE-HEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.

Related words: (words related to CUBBRIDGE-HEAD)

• BULKHEAD
  A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck. 2. A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front. Bulked line, a line
• FORECASTLE
  A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks. That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels. In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel,