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orlop

(n): the fourth or lowest deck
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about 4 hours ago yarb said:

"...I'd give him such a pair of black eyes that he wouldn't dare to show his face in the admiral's cabin again for a long while, let alone down in the orlop there, where he lives..."

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 76

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