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shade deck
noun
, Nautical.
- a light deck supported by stanchions.
- the space below this, open at the sides.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of shade deck1
First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences
As the ship began to move a band on the shade-deck struck up "Auld Lang Syne," and immediately the floodgates were unlocked.
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Not a single human being have I ever descried on the "shade-deck" or on the towering bridge.
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It is roofed by the "shade deck," which is rigidly reserved "for navigators only."
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