decker

¹

[ dek-er ]

noun

1. something, as a ship or bed, having a specified number of decks, floors, levels, or the like (used in combination):

   The cruise ship is a five-decker.

Decker

²

[ dek-er ]

noun

1. Thomas. Dekker, Thomas.

Decker

¹

/ ˈdɛkə /

noun

1. See Dekker
   a variant spelling of (Thomas) Dekker

-decker

²

adjective

1. in combination having a certain specified number of levels or layers

   a double-decker bus

Word History and Origins

Origin of decker¹

First recorded in 1785–95; deck + -er ¹

Example Sentences

“Masters had connections with survivalists,” Grants Pass Daily Courier (PDF) reporter Edith Decker wrote in 2010.

From The Daily Beast

Listen: If you got off a double-decker bus to come to New York, who would you rather see waiting for you?

From The Daily Beast

You'd been drunk for hours, but you dove off a double-decker lake boat and came up gracefully for air.

From The Daily Beast

“I have a top-five list [of crushes], and Gisele is my number one,” model-turned-actress Brooklyn Decker told the magazine.

From The Daily Beast

Decker, 26, chatted with The Daily Beast about the role, her transition from modeling to acting, and much more.

From The Daily Beast

But Decker's and Ben Jonson's works abound in allusions to tobacco, its uses and abuses.

From Project Gutenberg

Its duty is, like that of any three-decker, to guard the merchant service from a dangerous foe.

From Project Gutenberg

Had they really no hearts, so that it made no difference to them how deeply they wounded poor Nettie Decker?

From Project Gutenberg

"Decker, you ought to learn to play," said one of the guests who had watched him through the last piece.

From Project Gutenberg

Mrs. Decker declared that the first time she sat down in it, she felt more rested than she had in three years.

From Project Gutenberg