afterdeck
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of afterdeck
Example Sentences
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Griffin says he wouldn’t have imagined when he was a student assigned the squalid work of scraping barnacles from scientific instruments on the afterdeck how crucial they would prove to science.
From National Geographic • Aug. 23, 2023
Through the years he had a succession of little sailboats, each needing only two for a crew, each with a dental chair and firm foothold for the doctor on the afterdeck.
From Time Magazine Archive
Drawn up the gaping skidway by steel cables thrumming on giant steam-driven winches, the whale reached the broad afterdeck.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the afterdeck of his yacht Alva, William Kissam Vanderbilt, cousin of Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt's late husband, had a cradle built to carry his new $70,000 amphibian plane.
From Time Magazine Archive
She fed some wood chips to the brazier on the afterdeck, stirred the coals with a blackened blade, and began to knead the dough for the morning biscuits.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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