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

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

And presently the deck lashings would part under the battering of the surf and the deck load would go by the board.

From Cappy Ricks Retires by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)

Frank avoided it by leaping upward and seizing a stanchion used to secure the framework holding down the deck load.

From The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic by Goldfrap, John Henry

He'd had a good deal worse knocks than that seemed to be, as only left a black and blue spot, and he said he never see a deck load o' timber piled securer.

From A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches by Jewett, Sarah Orne

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