shelter deck

American  

noun

Nautical.

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

2. the 'tween deck beneath this.

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Etymology

Origin of shelter deck

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.

From Seattle Times

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.

From BBC

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.

From Literature

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg