2. Verb. (third-person singular of deck) ¹
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Definition of Decks
1. deck [v] - See also: deck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decks
Literary usage of Decks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Ships by Cecil Torr (1894)
"These sailing-ships, however, used often to have three decks. ... though apparently
the planking of the decks did not extend over the whole 124 The older ..."
2. A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution: And Laws of the United States by John Bouvier (1874)
"If there be a break, a poop, or any other permanent closed-in space on the upper
decks or the spar-deck available for cargo or stores or. for the berthing ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"On board of some of our ships, cruising in moist, tropical regions, the decks,
from being drenched daily with sea-water, are never absolutely dry ; yet no ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... but the foe From the black ships ; whereon they clomb, and plied The long-spliced
poles that lay upon the decks, Brass-bound, and tipp'd with brass, ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The strakes under the ends of the beams of the different decks in a man-of-war,
and down to the ports of the deck below, if there were any ports, ..."
6. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1911)
"... next day being Sunday, after washing and clearing decks, and getting breakfast,
the mate came forward with leave for one watch to go ashore, on liberty. ..."
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