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sick bay

noun

  1. a hospital or dispensary, especially aboard ship.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sick bay1

First recorded in 1805–15

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Example Sentences

The sick were cared for by the doctor and his attentive sick-bay man, assisted by all the officers.

Back the way he had come, back toward the sick bay, he pitched.

Since Mura was in the isolation of ship sick bay the stripping of his cabin was a relatively simple job.

All my men at quarters but West, who was on shore when we sailed, the men say on leave,—and Collins in the sick bay.

She had a dreamy remembrance of the first day or two of her sojourn in what the girls called “the sick bay.”

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