flush-decked

[ fluhsh-dekt ]

adjective

, Nautical.

1. having a weather deck flush with the hull.

Word History and Origins

Origin of flush-decked¹

First recorded in 1620–30

Example Sentences

Ships which have their only gun-deck running fore and aft for the same height all along are called flush-decked ships.

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Racked into a flush-decked recess on one side of the hull was a crane arm with a two-hundred-ton lift capacity.

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She was flush-decked, and sat high in the water, with a freeboard of nearly five feet.

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She was a flush-decked vessel or corvette—large for that class of craft, with very square yards.

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Flush-decked vessels are thus termed, in contradistinction to the deep-waisted.

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