flush-decked
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of flush-decked
First recorded in 1620–30
Example Sentences
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The ship was flush-decked, broken only by the commander's cabin, the charthouse, and the skylights, masts, and funnel.
From In the Yellow Sea by Frith, Henry
She was a tremendously beamy craft, flush-decked fore-and-aft, and was armed with ten twelve-pounders in her broadside batteries, with a thirty-two-pounder between her masts—a truly formidable craft of her kind.
From The Log of a Privateersman by Rainey, W. (William)
The galliasse was sometimes flush-decked, without poop and forecastle, and sometimes built with both, but she was never so "high charged" as the galleon.
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by Masefield, John
The cross-pieces on the small bitts at the main and fore hatchways in flush-decked vessels, for stowing away the booms and spars over the boats; also termed gallowses, gallows-tops, gallows-bitts, and gallows-stanchions.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
Lucky for us we were a flush-decked ship and our hatches sound, for the seas that poured over us would have filled us to the brim in an hour.
From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Reed, Talbot Baines
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