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decking, vbl. n.|ˈdɛkɪŋ|
[f. deck v. and n.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb deck; † concr. that with which something is decked (obs.); adornment, embellishment, ornament.
1531Elyot Gov. ii. iii, Semblable deckynge oughte to be in the house of a nobleman or man of honour. 1562J. Shute Cambine's Turk. Wars 38 Somtuouse and magnifique ornamentes and deckings. c1620Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 157 Spending on decking many precious houres. 1673Lady's Call. i. §1 ⁋26. 10 Their most exquisit deckings are but like the garlands on a beast design'd for sacrifice.
2. a. The work or material of the deck of a ship; planking or flooring forming a deck.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Le tillac d'vne navire, the decking of a ship. 1879Butcher & Lang Odyssey 81 Fashion a wide raft..and lay deckings high thereupon. 1887Daily News 26 June 6/2 The building is considered to be absolutely fireproof, the floors being all of steel ‘decking’ and solid breeze concrete.
b. In extended uses (see deck n.1 3 b).
1883Specif. Alnwick & Cornhill Rlwy. 45 The superstructure consists of two wrought-iron plate girders..connected together by cross-bracing and by a decking of curved strips. 1897Daily News 3 May 2/1 Piles, beams, and decking. 1898Ibid. 4 Oct. 3/2 A huge decking..is being constructed in the river. Ibid. 12 Dec. 3/3 It was some time before the decking of the pier collapsed. 1900Westm. Gaz. 29 Dec. 5/2 Some of the decking of St. Leonards pier was wrenched away by the waves. 1924Times Trade & Engin. Suppl. 29 Nov. 252/3 The general design of decking is that of a reinforced concrete slab. 1954Archit. Rev. CXVI. 129 Roof deckings are now well established in the vocabulary of present-day building materials. 1963Gloss. Build. Terms (B.S.I.) 18 Decking, prefabricated units for the construction of a floor or roof. 1970Financial Times 13 Apr. 13/7 Coated steel..has found particular outlets in cladding, as well as roofing and decking.
3. In Lumbering: the action of piling logs on a skidway. Also attrib. U.S.
1901Munsey's Mag. XXV. 392/1 A decking chain more than three hundred feet long is required to roll the logs to their places. 1902S. E. White Blazed Trail xi. 83 A shout of surprise or horror would have stopped the horse pulling on the decking chain. |