shiproom en · NOUN
Etymology
From ship + room.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Storage space on a ship.
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.
1961, Lois Mitchison, The overseas Chinese: