weather deck
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of weather deck
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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And despite the prospect of bad weather, the unknown’s casket was carried up on the weather deck, possibly because it was too big to fit through the narrow hatches to be sheltered below, Bruns said.
From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2021
When he peered out the back window at the tow winch, three feet of water was surging over the tug’s weather deck.
From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2014
He would regularly take his place on screen as the station's meteorologist, Wayne Mahar gave out the forecast in the open air from what was referred to as the "weather deck".
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2014
It was deep winter, but at 6 a.m. reveille the cadets fell in on the weather deck of the training ship, stripped to the waist, washed and shaved out of ice-filled buckets of water.
From Time Magazine Archive
The round moon brightened the world, the west pyramids of canvas above me bellied taut, the cordage wrung a stirring whistle from the wind, the silver spray cascaded on the weather deck.
From The Blood Ship by Springer, Norman
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