spar deck
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of spar deck
First recorded in 1560–70
Example Sentences
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I crept back from the ventilation grate and made my way upstairs to join Annabeth and Tyson on the spar deck.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
Undead sailors calmly went about their business on the spar deck.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
She had seven decks—one main or sleeping, three close decks, one forecastle, and a spar deck of two floors.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles
The hulls were tied together athwartship by the deck beams of the gun deck and spar deck, except in the wake of the paddle wheel.
From Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran by Chapelle, Howard I. (Howard Irving)
The hull is shown with bulwarks and gunports on the spar deck but no other evidence that the Battery was finished in this manner has been found.
From Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran by Chapelle, Howard I. (Howard Irving)
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