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Definition of Lower deck
1. Noun. The deck below the main deck.
Definition of Lower deck
1. Noun. (countable nautical) The deck of a ship immediately above the hold ¹
2. Noun. (uncountable nautical by extension) Those members of a ship's company who are not officers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lower Deck
Literary usage of Lower deck
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1803)
"After sails at, I went down to dinner, dined, I went to lower-deck^ saw Chesterman
in his ... After this I went ) the lower-deck, and stood e James Ward, ..."
2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1803)
"down hi the lower-deck and cobbed. On Sunday morning the word was passed. This was
the 6th of December. As before, when hands turned up to bend sails, ..."
3. A Handbook of the Petroleum Industry by David Talbot Day (1922)
"E. Same as D but with continuous expansion trunk carried up above upper deck. F.
Two decks, with center-line bulkhead to lower deck ..."
4. A Modern Slavery by Henry Woodd Nevinson (1906)
"The slaves are, of course, kept in the fore part of the ship. All day long they
lie about the lower deck, 1 See note on page 185. ..."
5. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"... under every lower-deck beam in the (hip, as low as the water would permit ...
under the end of every lower-deck beam, was placed a diagonal ..."
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