deck load

How to use deck load in a sentence

• There's a deck-load of millionaires comes here every summer, and I'm goin' to help her land one of 'em.

  Cape Cod Stories | Joseph C. Lincoln

• It was quite astonishing to see the ease with which he navigated under his heavy deck-load.

  Summer Cruising in the South Seas | Charles Warren Stoddard

• She had a considerable deck-load of cotton, and doubtless her hold was filled with the same valuable commodity.

  Fighting for the Right | Oliver Optic

• He had an ugly trip down the coast: lost his deck load and three men overboard in a southeaster off Nantucket Shoals.

  In Exile and Other Stories | Mary Hallock Foote

• Now, that she was deep and was rolling her deck-load to the water, it was time to think of lightening her.

  Ned Myers | James Fenimore Cooper