half deck

American  

noun

1. (in a sailing ship) the portion of the deck below the upper or spar deck and aft of the mainmast.

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Other Word Forms

• half-decker
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of half deck

First recorded in 1620–30

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Example Sentences

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half deck

It's a sight out of a Twain lover's imagined memory: a tiny, homemade Mississippi River raft, buoyant on blue oil-drums, flapping blue canvas greetings from its scanty half deck.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here they spent seven weeks careening; and, capturing a galley, La Bouce, the second captain, cut her half deck, and mounted her with 24 guns.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury

They could not indeed provide against the barbarity of their captains; but they secured them a space under the half deck in which to sleep.

From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) Volume II by Thomas Clarkson

Now aft, near the tiller, a small boat was bound on the half deck of the Raven.

From Eric Brighteyes by Henry Rider Haggard

Now they were come to the prow, and there was a half deck under which they were set, out of reach of the wind and water.

From Eric Brighteyes by Henry Rider Haggard

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