What is the meaning of DECK. Phrases containing DECK
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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Deck
v.
The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
n.
Hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially (Naut.), that part of a vessel's deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter-deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship.
n.
That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one.
v. t.
To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
a.
Partially decked.
n.
Same as Deckle.
n.
Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
n.
One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a table decker.
n.
See Half deck, under Deck.
a.
Not having a deck; as, an undecked vessel.
n.
A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs.
n.
A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
imp. & p. p.
of Deck
n.
A vessel of war carrying guns on two decks.
n.
A man-of-war having two gun decks.
n.
The hole in the deck through which the rudderpost passes.
a.
Not decked; unadorned.
n.
A vessel which has a deck or decks; -- used esp. in composition; as, a single-decker; a three-decker.
n.
A cabin or apartament on the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof; -- sometimes called the coach.
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