forehold
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Noun — (nautical) The front section of the space inside a ship where cargo is stored.
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Etymology
Formed from fore- (a prefix meaning ‘positioned at or near the front’) and hold (“the cargo area of an aircraft or ship”). Hold itself is a variant of hole (shaped by the verb hold), which came from Middle English hole, hol (“perforation, hole; cave, cavern; hiding place, shelter; cell, compartment”), itself from Old E...
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