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

Here he obtained a loan of fifteen dollars and took deck passage on a boat to Louisville, going thence to Shipping Port to see his son Victor.

From John James Audubon by John Burroughs

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

From The Philippine Islands by John Foreman

Then I boldly presented myself before Mr. Escombe, the agent, explained the plight I was in, and asked him to let me have, on credit, a deck passage to East London.

From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

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

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

From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade by Mark Twain