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Definition of Sickbay
1. Noun. (nautical) a room for the treatment of the sick or injured (as on a ship).
Definition of Sickbay
1. Noun. A place used as a hospital on board a ship, on a spaceship (in science fiction). ¹
2. Noun. A room or area for the treatment of the sick or injured at a school, boarding school. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sickbay
1. a ship's hospital [n -BAYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sickbay
Literary usage of Sickbay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"Why, Jem, a send like that was enough to have started your starn-post,' said one
of the group which had assembled between the sickbay and starboard side of ..."
2. Autobiography of George Dewey: Admiral of the Navy by George Dewey (1913)
"When she was raised from her muddy bed, five years later, eighty skeletons were
found in the sickbay and fifteen shot holes in the hull; while the many hits ..."
3. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the by William Edward Parry (1824)
"Besides this a bed of snow, three feet deep, was subsequently laid on the deck,
over my cabin, and also on the forecastle over the sickbay, to assist in ..."
4. The Metropolitan (1841)
"When Cris Cross was relieved at eight bells, instead of going down to his mess
he sauntered about the canvass door of the sickbay, in the hope—no, no, ..."
5. Deck and Port: Or, Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate by Walter Colton (1850)
"Man missing.—Tracts on board.—Waterspout.—Life at sea.—An eclipse.—The sickbay.—Moral
mechanism of a man-of-war.—Speaking a brig.— Departure of Mr. Beale. ..."
6. Deck and Port: Or, Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate by Walter Colton (1850)
"Man missing.—Tracts on board.—Waterspout.—Life at sea.—An eclipse.—The sickbay.—Moral
mechanism of a man-of-war.—Speaking a brig.— Departure of Mr. Beale. ..."
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