shelter deck

noun

Nautical.

1. a weather deck covering a space not considered fully watertight.

2. the 'tween deck beneath this.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shelter deck¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

They say the producer concluded the boat, with its protective shelter deck and no-drama crew, would not make good television.

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But the most significant occurred in the weeks before the sinking when the trawler's 700kg crane was replaced on the shelter deck with a 1,500kg model.

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The date was April 14, 1912, a sinister day in maritime history, but of course the man in suite 63-65, shelter deck C, did not yet know it.

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Then he had to be taken up on the shelter deck and introduced to a strange, pale man reclining in a steamer chair, who they said was his father.

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The A.M.L.O., peering through the rain from the shelter deck of the steamer, recognises the rank of his assailant.

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