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 Daniel Collins

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 William Henry Carman Folsom

Chairs were found for four, and Julian, stepping aside for a fifth chair, came upon another worthy, as well juleped as himself and carrying his deck load quite as evenly.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable

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