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
First came the semiofficial merrymaking, amid champagne toasts, flowers and bouzoukis, on the afterdeck of the Onassis yacht Christina.
From Time Magazine Archive
But on the Norfolk's afterdeck a clumsy-looking box swung like a gun turret.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reporters and officials who boarded the Samaria at Quarantine found the refugees assembled on the tourist-class afterdeck.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tyrion pulled on his boots and descended to the afterdeck, where Griff sat wrapped in a wolfskin cloak beside an iron brazier.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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