three-decker

[ three-dek-er ]

/ ˈθriˈdɛk ər /

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noun

any ship having three decks, tiers, etc.

(formerly) one of a class of sailing warships that carried guns on three decks.

a sandwich made of three slices of bread interlaid with two layers of filling; club sandwich.

something having three layers, levels, or tiers.

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Also called triple-decker (for defs. 3, 4).

Origin of three-decker

First recorded in 1785–95

Words nearby three-decker

three-colour, three-cornered, three-D, three-day event, three-day measles, three-decker, three-dimensional, Three Fires, threefold, three-four time, three-gaited

How to use three-decker in a sentence

Its duty is, like that of any three-decker, to guard the merchant service from a dangerous foe.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands|R.M. Ballantyne
This was an armed launch, which, shooting out from beneath the shadow of a three-decker, swept across the bay with muffled oars.
The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II)|Charles James Lever
For the choicest sort of foolishness you have to go to these fellows with the three-decker brains!
Heroes of To-Day|Mary R. Parkman
The English ships were all seventy-fours; the French had three eighty-gun ships, and one three-decker of one hundred and twenty.
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson|Robert Southey

A vice-admiral, in a three-decker, led them, and was reaching up to the Victory just as she had come up to tack in her station.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLII. Vol. LV. April, 1844|Various

British Dictionary definitions for three-decker

three-decker

noun

anything having three levels or layers
(as modifier)a three-decker sandwich

a warship with guns on three decks

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