Definition of Quarterdecks

1. Noun. (plural of quarterdeck) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Quarterdecks

1. quarterdeck [n] - See also: quarterdeck

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quarterdecks

quarter sessions
quarter stock
quarter to
quarter tone
quarter waiter
quarter waiters
quarterage
quarterages
quarterback
quarterbacked
quarterbacking
quarterbacks
quarterboy
quarterboys
quarterdeck
quarterdecks (current term)
quartered
quarterer
quarterers
quarterfinal
quarterfinalist
quarterfinalists
quarterfinals
quarterfoil
quarterfoils
quarterhorse
quarterhorses
quartering
quarterings
quarterless

Literary usage of Quarterdecks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Naval History of Great Britain: From the Declaration of War by France in by William James, Frederick Chamier (1837)
"... their quarterdecks as fully supplied with puns, as there was room for ports on each side, no additional pieces could be placed there ; but it was found ..."

2. The Naval History of Great Britain: From the Declaration of War by France in by William James, Frederick Chamier (1837)
"... and that in future all his majesty's ships should be rated at the number of guns and carronades which they actually carry on their decks, quarterdecks, ..."

3. Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review edited by Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart (1878)
"... arrangements subsisted down to the seventeenth and even to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the high forecastles and quarterdecks of English, ..."

4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"... in spite of a governess, to spin a romance of fancy, to stride the quarterdecks of pirate ships, to fraternize with organ- grinders and cobblers, ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly (1891)
"In 1845 he published a plan for disengaging and floating quarterdecks on steamers and other vessels for the purpose of saving human lives at sea, ..."

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