dungeon n On a sealing vessel, the often make-shift quarters below decks for the accommodation of the seal-hunters.
   1924 ENGLAND 59 Shouts, raw laughter echo; and laughter too from the 'tweendecks, even from the 'dungeon,' or under-fo'c's'le, vastly filthier than the 'tween-decks. How can men laugh in such places? 1933 GREENE 40 The 'Dungeon'on board of an old-time Sealer was the name often given to a space bulk-headed off under the main deck where the cooks and servers slept. The bulk of the crew were provided with double berths rigged-up in the Tween-decks over the ballast tanks of the Main Hold. T 181-65 But we was down into a place called the dungeon—all dark. We had our candles—that's all our light; and your rope to haul on. Four of us in one berth.

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