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

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Etymology

Origin of deck passage

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30

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Example Sentences

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deck passage

Whitehall to St. John's, by steam-boat, board included, cabin 5 dollars; deck passage 2 dollars without board.

From The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill

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

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

He's going to quit his class, and take deck passage for Havre; going to the school of mines in Paris, and, when through with that, on a mineral hunt from Africa to Siberia.

From The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

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