deck passage

American  

noun

1. overnight accommodation on a vessel other than in a regular sleeping space.

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Other Word Forms

• deck passenger
  noun

Etymology

Origin of deck passage

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30

Example Sentences

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deck passage

Among these were two young females taking deck passage, and our mules, horses, wagons etc., were stowed away upon all sides of them.

From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jenkins Lloyd Jones

My father also went with us, and so did Mr. Willard and his wife, the whole party taking deck passage on a Mississippi steamer, and arriving at St. Paul in the month of August.

From Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant by Hans Mattson

As on the diligence he took an outside and plebeian seat, so, with the same secret motive of preserving unsuspected the character assumed, he took a deck passage in the packet.

From Israel Potter by Herman Melville

Then I could not make up my mind whether to disguise myself as a native, and take a deck passage; or whether to go on board with a bag, and book first-class to Bussorah.

From The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia by A. F. Mockler Ferryman

We went by train to Albany, where we took deck passage on a towing steamer for New York.

From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by William James Stillman