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noun Nautical.

a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.

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Origin of forecastle deck

First recorded in 1850–55

“Deck the Halls” was written back in the 16th century, when the English language was very different.
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Obama has latched on to the failure of the embargo to topple the Castros as justification to shuffle the deck.
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Deck your halls instead with boughs of holly, shouting “Merry Christmas” (or “Happy Hanukkah”) well into the night.
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Anyone willing to threaten war over a joke is clearly not playing with a full deck.
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For starters, from a purely practical, all-hands-on-deck position, I say if you can do the job, you should keep the job.
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It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'
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A few moments afterward he was seen dragging his own trunk ashore, while Mr. Hitchcock finished his story on the boiler deck.
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Fancy that enormous shell dropping suddenly out of the blue on to a ship's deck swarming with troops!
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Maybe it didn't feel good to be on the hurricane deck of a good horse once more!
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I'd much rather see what is going on than be cooped up below, and after lunch I told Bob I was going up on deck.
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