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Definition of Quarterdecks
1. quarterdeck [n] - See also: quarterdeck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quarterdecks
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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