decker

¹

[ dek-er ]

noun

1. something, as a ship or bed, having a specified number of decks, floors, levels, or the like (used in combination):

   The cruise ship is a five-decker.

Decker

²

[ dek-er ]

noun

1. Thomas. Dekker, Thomas.

Decker

¹

/ ˈdɛkə /

noun

1. a variant spelling of (Thomas) Dekker

-decker

²

adjective

1. in combination having a certain specified number of levels or layers

   a double-decker bus

Word History and Origins

Origin of decker¹

First recorded in 1785–95; deck + -er ¹

Example Sentences

It looked legitimate to him, so he messaged Decker back for more information.

From Washington Post

It’s up to each employer and employee, Decker says, to work out an agreement as to what accommodations are actually required to ensure that the employee can fulfill the essential functions of their job.

From Washington Post

In a case like Hinken’s, Decker says, “the employer does have the ability to say, listen, though, I need you here to actually help these patients.”

From Washington Post

Decker was pregnant with Roldan’s child, authorities said, and she was a student at George Mason University when she went missing.

From Washington Post

Decker, like Roberts, kept pushing, repeatedly asking McEnany where the river was.

From Washington Post

“Masters had connections with survivalists,” Grants Pass Daily Courier (PDF) reporter Edith Decker wrote in 2010.

From The Daily Beast

Listen: If you got off a double-decker bus to come to New York, who would you rather see waiting for you?

From The Daily Beast

You'd been drunk for hours, but you dove off a double-decker lake boat and came up gracefully for air.

From The Daily Beast

“I have a top-five list [of crushes], and Gisele is my number one,” model-turned-actress Brooklyn Decker told the magazine.

From The Daily Beast

Decker, 26, chatted with The Daily Beast about the role, her transition from modeling to acting, and much more.

From The Daily Beast

But Decker's and Ben Jonson's works abound in allusions to tobacco, its uses and abuses.

From Project Gutenberg

Its duty is, like that of any three-decker, to guard the merchant service from a dangerous foe.

From Project Gutenberg

Had they really no hearts, so that it made no difference to them how deeply they wounded poor Nettie Decker?

From Project Gutenberg

"Decker, you ought to learn to play," said one of the guests who had watched him through the last piece.

From Project Gutenberg

Mrs. Decker declared that the first time she sat down in it, she felt more rested than she had in three years.

From Project Gutenberg