deck passage

noun

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

Other Words From

• deck passenger noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of deck passage¹

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30

Example Sentences

In ordinary times fares ranged from ₱50 saloon accommodation to ₱8 a deck passage.

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Jim said we could take deck passage on a steamboat now, and the money would last us as far as we wanted to go in the free States.

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That warn't enough to take us fourteen hundred mile, deck passage nor no other way.

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It was doubtless the former, since he had said his parents were wealthy, and he only traveled deck passage because it was cooler.

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At half-past ten, sir, then being slightly under the influence of liquor, he accepted the price of a deck passage to Stockton.

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