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sick berth

noun as in sick bay

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They are in ill health, and one or two should be lying up in a sick berth, instead of being sworn at left and right for not moving quicker.

There was no sick berth attendant, but the lieutenant told off “a little cabin-boy” for his use.

With these departmental chiefs came their respective staffs of warrant officers, petty officers, wireless operators, engine-room artificers, motor mechanics, shipwrights, carpenters, smiths, naval police, signalmen, storekeepers, sick berth attendants and parties of seamen.

Will, with the greatest difficulty, restrained his feelings till he reached the sick berth, and then he threw himself into a hammock and burst into tears.

I managed to get on board to the sick berth, and after the steward's treatment it ceased bleeding.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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