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decked, ppl. a.|dɛkt|
[f. deck + -ed.]
1. Adorned, embellished, set out: see the verb.
a1500Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) I. 4 See that you fourth bringe In well decked order, that worthie storie Of Balaam and his asse. 1593Queen Elizabeth Boeth. 16 The decked wode seak not whan thou violetz gather. 1865J. G. Bertram Harvest of Sea (1873) 307 The well-decked and well-plenished dwellings.
b. Her. Applied to an eagle or other bird when the edges of the feathers are of a different tincture.
In mod. Dicts.
2. Having a deck, or decks (as in two-decked).
1792A. Young Trav. France 78 By the passage-packet, a decked vessel, to Honfleur. 1837Marryat Dog-fiend iii, On board of a two-decked ship. 1879Butcher & Lang Odyssey 28 Such tackling as decked ships carry. |