deck load
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of deck load
First recorded in 1750–60
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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
With her came the tossing, charging timbers washed from the deck load.
From Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point Nita, the Girl Castaway by Alice B. Emerson
He had an ugly trip down the coast: lost his deck load and three men overboard in a southeaster off Nantucket Shoals.
From In Exile and Other Stories by Mary Hallock Foote
This rope had been stretched above the deck load for a ridge rope, but, being rotten, it gave way when the poor Prussian struck it, and he went into the sea.
From Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast by James Fenimore Cooper
They have jettisoned her deck load, and now she'll just float soggily.
From Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's by Walter S. Rogers
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