shiproom
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[edit]shiproom (uncountable)
- Storage space on a ship.
- 1961, Lois Mitchison, The overseas Chinese:
- Sometimes the boats ran out of drinking water and food on the journey, and for most emigrants a coffin-shaped space between other bunks or a small square on deck was all the shiproom they had for themselves and the bundle of luggage they took with them to their new lives.