three-decker

[ three-dek-er ]

noun

1. any ship having three decks, tiers, etc.
2. (formerly) one of a class of sailing warships that carried guns on three decks.
3. a sandwich made of three slices of bread interlaid with two layers of filling; club sandwich.
4. something having three layers, levels, or tiers.

three-decker

noun

1. 1. anything having three levels or layers
   2. ( as modifier )

      a three-decker sandwich

2. a warship with guns on three decks

Word History and Origins

Origin of three-decker¹

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

Its duty is, like that of any three-decker, to guard the merchant service from a dangerous foe.

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This was an armed launch, which, shooting out from beneath the shadow of a three-decker, swept across the bay with muffled oars.

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For the choicest sort of foolishness you have to go to these fellows with the three-decker brains!

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The English ships were all seventy-fours; the French had three eighty-gun ships, and one three-decker of one hundred and twenty.

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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.

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