spar deck
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of spar deck
First recorded in 1560–70
Example Sentences
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I crept back from the ventilation grate and made my way upstairs to join Annabeth and Tyson on the spar deck.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
Undead sailors calmly went about their business on the spar deck.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
The Serapis now triced up her lower-deck ports, showing two complete batteries, besides her spar deck, lighted up for action, and making a most formidable appearance.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 by Various
The men were thus able to provision them more easily than in their exposed berths on the spar deck.
From The Captain of the Kansas by Louis Tracy
She had a weapon, a loaded revolver, which she had picked up from beneath a boat's tarpaulin lying on the spar deck.
From The Captain of the Kansas by Louis Tracy
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