deck load

American  

noun

Nautical.

1. cargo carried on an open deck of a ship.

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Etymology

Origin of deck load

First recorded in 1750–60

Example Sentences

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deck load

With spray gun and grease gun. the women coated the glass of vehicles destined for deck load so no warning reflection would betray the convoy, smeared the underparts for protection against salt spray.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two of the crew were at the pumps—the deck load, which consisted of boards, scantlings and oars, piled on each side as high as their heads—the other two people were probably on the quarter deck.

From Narrative of the shipwreck of the brig Betsey, of Wiscasset, Maine, and murder of five of her crew, by pirates, on the coast of Cuba, Dec. 1824. by Collins, Daniel

The main and mizzen masts were now cut away, to prevent her upsetting, and she was quite clear of her deck load.

From Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People by Park, Marmaduke

A schooner with a deck load of wood drifted with the tide, her sails flapping; I saw her in a blur.

From The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day by Stark, Harriet

We took our cargo on board, boxes of sugar in the hold and hogsheads of molasses for a deck load.

From The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document by Anonymous