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

The brig at one time was so nearly capsized that her deck load had rolled to one side and held her in an inclined position.

From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman

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 Foote, Mary Hallock

She was loaded with staves, and a great hole was made in the deck load, within which Mason was snugly stowed away, while the staves were piled over him again.

From Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier by Severance, Frank H.

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