spar deck
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of spar deck
First recorded in 1560–70
Example Sentences
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Undead sailors calmly went about their business on the spar deck.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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
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)
No bulwarks were on the spar deck, only iron stanchions to which were fastened a breastwork of wet cotton bales when the Steam Battery was in action.
From Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran by Chapelle, Howard I. (Howard Irving)
The spar deck was entirely covered by a hurricane deck, thus giving complete protection from cold and the stormy weather we would be sure to encounter on the voyage.
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by Bradshaw, William Richard
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