deckn.¹

Brit.

/dɛk/, U.S.

/dɛk/

Forms: Also Middle English dekke, 1500s–1600s decke.

Etymology: In sense 1, apparently of Flemish or Low German origin. In sense 1, probably < Middle Dutch dec (neuter) roof, covering, cloak, pretext (apparently < decke < Old Germanic þakjo^m , from same root as deck v.): compare Kilian ‘decke operimentum, lodix = decksel operimentum, opertorium, tegumen, tegumentum, tegmen, stragulum’; also modern Dutch dek bed-covering, horse-cloth. But in the nautical sense, 2, the word is not known in Dutch before 1675–81, when dek (neuter) appears as a synonym of verdek, quoted in the nautical sense in 1640, but recorded by Kilian, 1599, only in the general sense ‘tegumen, velamen’. Thus, deck in the nautical sense, appears to be known in English 160 years earlier than in Dutch. It may be simply a specific application of the general sense ‘covering’, or it may come more immediately from the Middle Dutch sense ‘roof.’

I. A covering, platform, or surface.

†1. A covering. Obsolete.In quot. 1466 apparently some material used for covering; with 1712 cf. Dutch dek ‘horse-cloth’.

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1466 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 348 My mastyr paid to John Felawe, for xij. yerdes of dekke for the spynas, iijs.

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xx^v Do on your Decke Slut,..I mean your Copyntanke.

1712 London Gaz. No. 4997/4 A red Saddle with 2 Ovals in the Skirt, and the under Decks edg'd with blue.

a. Nautical. A platform extending from side to side of a ship or part of a ship, covering in the space below, and also itself serving as a floor; formed of planks, or (in iron ships) of iron plating usually covered with planks.The primary notion was ‘covering’ or ‘roof’ rather than ‘floor’: see quots. 1550, 1624, and cf. 1466 at sense 1, where the ‘dekke for the spynas’ or pinnace, may have been a covering of canvas, tarpaulin, or the like. In early craft there was a deck only at the stern, so that 16th cent. writers sometimes use deck as equivalent to poop. In Elyot (1538), whence in Cooper, Huloet, and Baret, deck is erroneously made the equivalent of prora, instead of puppis.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck

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1513 E. Echyngham Let. to Wolsey in A. Spont Lett. & Papers War France (1897) X. 152 And bycause I hade no rayles upon my dek I coyled a cable rounde a[long] dek, brest hye, and likwise in the waste.

1531 C. Morres Inv. Great Bark (Cott. MS. App. xxviii) In primis, the shype with oon over~lop. Item, a somer castell & a cloos tymber deck made from the mast forward whyche was made of laet. Item aboue the somer castel A deck from the mayne mast aftward.

1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War (tr. Seyssel's Fr. version of Valla's Lat.) 191 They couered the former parte, and the mooste parte of their deckes [Fr. la plus part du couvert de leurs navires] w^t copper [Fr. cuir, leather].

1578 J. Polemon All Famous Battels 193 The Moore hitting the decke, strake off the rudder.

1578 J. Polemon All Famous Battels 320 (Battle of Lepanto) The decke of this galley..chequered and wroughte marvellous fayre with diuers colours and hystories..ingraued and wrought in golde.

1578 J. Polemon All Famous Battels 192 [Seafight at Cape of Orso, 1528] Philippino..levelling the first shotte of his Basilisco, with piercing the Emperiall Admirall, passed from the stemme to the decke, slaying thirtie men.

1578 W. Bourne Arte of Shooting xvi. 59 It is very evil for to have the Orlop or Deck too low under the port.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 198 Now on the Beake, Now in the Waste, the Decke, in euery Cabyn.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. 63 In a broad Bay, out of danger of their shot..we vntyed our Targets that couered vs as a Deck.

1692 Delaval in London Gaz. No. 2769/3 15 Capital Ships, 10 whereof are of 3 Decks.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 39 A Boat with a Deck and a Sail.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxiii. 125 The captain walked the deck at a rapid stride.

b. With qualifying words.The largest ships of the line had a main-deck, middle deck, and lower deck; also the upper deck or spar-deck, extending from stem to stern over the main-deck, and the orlop deck (which carried no guns) below the lower deck; they had also a poop-deck, or short deck in the after part of the ship above the spar-deck, and sometimes a forecastle deck, or similar short deck in the fore-part of the ship, sometimes retained in merchant ships and called the top-gallant forecastle. See also half-deck n., hurricane-deck n. at hurricane n. Compounds 2, quarterdeck n., etc.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes I was but one to sit at sterne, to pricke my carde, to watch vpon the vpper decke.

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 6 A Flush Decke is when from stem to sterne, it lies vpon a right line fore and aft.

1637 T. Heywood True Descr. Royall Ship 45 She hath three flush Deckes, and a Fore-Castle, an halfe Decke, a quarter Decke, and a round-house.

a1643 W. Monson Naval Tracts iii, in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. (1704) III. 346/1 They make close the Forecastle and Half-Deck.

a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 12 I see a man that's in the lower deck.

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xii. 186 Easthupp would constantly accost him familiarly on the forecastle and lower deck.

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xiii. 208 He then proceeded to the quarter-deck.

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. x. 297 To comply with the captain's orders on the main deck.

c. In phrases, as above deck (also figurative), between-decks adv. and n., on deck, under deck(s; to clear the decks, sweep the decks (see clear v., sweep v.). on deck (figurative, originally U.S.): at hand; ready for action; alive; in Baseball, next at the bat, with the right or privilege of batting next.

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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > in preparation [phrase] > in a state of preparation or readiness > for action or work

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the world > life > source or principle of life > [adverb] > alive

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. i. 87 Mi. Ford. Ile bee sure to keepe him aboue decke. Mi. Page. So will I: if hee come vnder my hatches, Ile neuer to Sea againe.

1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 419 Now hang the lighted Lanthorns betwixt decks and in the Hold.

a1679 W. Gurnall in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1872) III. Ps. lxv. 3 Poor Christian, who thinkest that thou shalt never get above deck.

1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 17 Committed to Prison on board the Ships..where they were kept under Decks.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 204 The rest run..down between Decks.

1857 R. Tomes Americans in Japan iv. 110 [He] left the banquet to be discussed by his officers and men, who..soon cleared the decks.

1867 Ball Players' Chron. 26 Sept. 5/4 Well, I went on deck and took up a bat.

1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxii. 274 Angels..are always on deck when there is a miracle to the fore.

1889 Lisbon (Dakota Territory) Star 26 Apr. 4/2 A. H. Moore..was kicked by a horse, a cow and a colt.., but is still on deck.

1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) xix. 328 I couldn't bring it [sc. oakum] up here if Jame was on deck. She'd be down on me like a ton of lead.

1950 Here & Now (N.Z.) Dec. 12/1 If I am on deck when that time comes you will have a strong advocate for reinstatement in the service.

1966 Times 28 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. x/4 Dice games and three-card monte are not, so to speak, on deck but bingo flourishes.

a. Mining. (See quot. 1888.)

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1888 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham (ed. 3) 31 Deck, the platform of a cage upon which the tubs stand when being drawn up or lowered down the pit.

b. By extension, any kind of floor or platform, as the floor of a pier or landing-stage, or the platform or roadway of a deck-bridge (see also quot. 1938).

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the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > quality of being raised or elevated > raised level surface or platform

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1872 Porcupine XIV. 314/2 The decks of the three stages being swept pretty clear, by the devastating fire of the enemy.

1876 Porcupine XVIII. 330/1 Its deck is fairly rotting away.

1883 Specif. Alnwick & Cornhill Railway 45 The girders are connected by a wrought-iron deck.

1910 A. Williams Engin. Wonders of World III. 282 The old suspension truss, which could then be removed piece by piece to make room for the upper deck.

1938 L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss. 56 Deck, one floor of a stack room containing the bookshelves, lifts, and workrooms. (American.)

1955 Times 9 May 18/2 Multi-deck car parks with direct access to the stores.

1961 Daily Tel. 19 Jan. 13/2 Other upper level walkways..include those on a ‘deck’ on the London Pavilion site.

1970 Times 9 Feb. 13/3 A service area and parking deck for 650 vehicles on the second floor.

c. Aeronautics. A main aeroplane surface, esp. of a biplane or multiplane; a wing.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > plane or aerofoil

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1843 G. Cayley in Mechanics' Mag. 8 Apr. 275/1 Would it not be more likely to answer the purpose to compact it into the form of a three decker, each deck being 8 to 10 ft. from the other, to give free room for the passage of air between them?

1910 A. Williams Engin. Wonders of World III. 7/2 The biplane, with two ‘decks’ set one above the other.

1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 287 Decks, the wings of an airplane.

d. The floor of an omnibus or tramcar; top or upper deck, the upper floor or compartment of a double-decked vehicle.

1870 [implied in: Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1867–8 7 460 Sheep arrive here from the west in single decked cars, but leave in double decked ones. (at double-deck n.)].

1906 Daily Chron. 11 Sept. 7/1 The cars..have no upper deck, and carry only thirty-six passengers, as compared with accommodation for sixty-six in and on the double-deck pattern.

1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §474 Top decks of double-decked tramcars.

1966 P. Moloney Plea for Mersey 33 The best place to hear examples of all these quaint circumlocutions is the top deck of Liverpool's buses.

1968 Listener 26 Dec. 855/2 Two American soldiers sat on the lower deck of a bus smoking cigars.

e. Aeronautics slang. The ground; spec. the landing-ground of an aerodrome.

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the world > the earth > land > ground > [noun]

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1925 Punch 11 Nov. 521 R.A.F. Officer (unhorsed). Oh, he just stalled on top of the loop, did a roll and left me hangin' on the straps; then spun into the deck.

1941 War Illustr. 29 Aug. 93/1 I didn't see the bombs drop, but Mac, the rear-gunner, yelled over the inter-comm in a broad Scots accent—‘There's one on the deck.’

1958 ‘N. Shute’ Rainbow & Rose vii. 276 She spun her Moth into the deck.

f. The surface of a tape recorder above which the tape moves, together with its attachments such as the motor(s) and other mechanisms, the magnetic heads, and the circuits immediately associated with them, the whole being built as a single unit; any device for moving tape from one spool to another past magnetic heads; more fully as tape deck. Also, the corresponding part of a system for playing gramophone records.

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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > using tape > part of

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1949 Electronic Engin. 21 149/3 At present the ‘Tapedeck’ recorder is available to manufacturers only who will fit the recorder into their own amplifying equipment.

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 249 Professional tape decks and some domestic decks have two further motors for the feed and take up spools.

1964 F. L. Westwater Electronic Computers iv. 67 Tape does not run continuously, but as required by the computer. It is mounted on what is called a Tape Deck.

a1965 Manual of ‘Ferrograph’ Series 6 (Model 631) 4 The instrument resolves itself into three main units:—A. The mechanical deck carrying the motors, heads, reels, etc. B. The power unit and oscillator. C. The amplifier chassis containing the amplifier, monitor meter, etc.

a1965 Manual of ‘Ferrograph’ Series 6 (Model 631) 27 The mechanical unit is situated entirely on the hinged deck of the instrument.

1971 Observer 28 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 33/2 (advt.) The Garrard range..means you can tailor a deck to suit your needs... Perfect sound and record care for years.

4. In U.S. ‘A passenger-car roof, particularly the clear-story roof’ ( Standard Dict.).

II. A pack or pile of things, and related uses.

a. ‘A pack of cards piled regularly on each other’ (Johnson); also the portion of the pack left, in some games, after the hands have been dealt. Since 17th cent. dialect and in U.S.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > pack

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > portion of pack not dealt

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1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus sig. F4^v If I chance but once to get the decke, To deale about and shufle as I would.

1594 R. Barnfield Shepheard Content viii. sig. Eiij Pride deales the Deck whilst Chance doth choose the Card.

1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 v. i. 44 But whilst he sought to steale the single ten, The king was finelie fingerd from the decke.

1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. D1^v Ile deale the cards and cut ye from the decke.

1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra i. iii. §21 The Selenites [have the shape], of Parallel Plates, as in a Deck of Cards.

1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. (1849) II. 449 In some parts of the North of England a pack of cards is called to this day..a deck of cards.

1860 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3)

1882 B. Harte Flip 135 I reckon the other fifty-one of the deck ez as pooty.

1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Deck o' cards, a pack of cards.

1885 Cent. Mag. 29 548/1 An old ratty deck of cards.

b. A packet of narcotics; a small portion of some drug wrapped in paper. U.S. slang.

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1922 E. F. Murphy Black Candle (1926) i. v. 52 Small paper packages [of cocaine]..are called ‘decks’, and contain about a couple of sniffs.

1927 Flynn's 9 July 462/2 At night it was ‘snow’ that went over the counter..to poor devils who left behind them three dollars..for a deck.

1949 ‘J. Evans’ Halo in Brass (1951) iv. 29 A deck of nose candy for sale to the right guy.

1966 C. Himes Heat's On iii. 27 When it's analysed, they'll find five or six half-chewed decks of heroin.

†6.

a. A pile of things laid flat upon each other.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > a layer > [noun] > layered arrangement > layered structure or object

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1625 F. Markham Bk. Honour ii. vi. 63 Any whose Pedigree lyes so deepe in the decke, that few or none will labour to find it.

1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd xix. 185 Subtill words, whereof such as shee are never to seeke, but have them still ready in the deck.

1634 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 287 So long as these things should hang upon the file, or lie in the deck, he might perhaps be safe.

1673 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd II. 394 A certain Declaration..which you have kept in deck until this season.

b. Part of a newspaper, periodical, etc., headline containing more than one line of type, esp. the part printed beneath the main headline. Also attributive.

1935 H. Straumann Newspaper Headlines i. 28 These are first decks (and streamers) only.

1935 H. Straumann Newspaper Headlines iii. 87 The first three lines or ‘decks’ as they would be called in present-day journalism.

1965 L. H. Whitten Progeny of Adder (1966) 127 The eight-column headline told him of Pantelein's body being found. But it was the ‘deck’ headline that held him: county coroner cites ‘vampirism’.

†7. Of a cannon: see quot. 1672. Obsolete.

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1672 tr. Compleat Gunner i. iv. 5 in T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline iii The Pumel or Button at her Coyl or Britch-end is called the Casacabel or her Deck.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (from sense 2.)

deck-cabin n.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 28 July 2/1 He..writes pictured post-cards at the deck-cabin table.

deck-cleat n.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Deck-cleats, pieces of wood temporarily nailed to the deck to secure objects in bad weather.

deck-cricket n.

1891 Scribner's Mag. 10 278 Deck cricket, quoits, and cock-fighting enliven the forenoons.

deck-flat n.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 60/1 Wood ships with wood beams have their deck-flats formed by planking laid upon and fastened to the beams.

deck-framing n.

1894 Outing 24 396/1 Everything else, including the deck-framing and deck is of the same kind of material as those used in a regular battleship.

deck-game n.

1896 S. A. Barnett Let. Sept. in H. Barnett Canon Barnett (1918) II. xxxvii. 118 Of course there are the deck games.

1971 ‘A. Garve’ Late Bill Smith ii. 45 There was..little provision for deck games.

deck-officer n.

deck-passage n.

1828 ‘C. Sealsfield’ Americans as they Are ix. 105 The great difference of fare between a cabin and a deck passage..contributes to establish a distinction in this assemblage of people.

1875 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 217/1 He only traveled deck passage because it was cooler.

deck-passenger n.

1824 W. Owen Diary 6 Dec. in Indiana Hist. Soc. Publ. (1906) IV. 57 Here the steerage, or as they are called deck passengers, sit, eat and sleep.

1859 J. D. Burn Autobiogr. Beggar Boy (ed. 4) 114 Among the deck passengers there was a man and his wife with seven children.

1872 E. Eggleston End of World xxviii. 187 He passed through to the place where the steerage or deck passengers are.

deck-plank n.

1884 E. J. Reed in Contemp. Rev. Nov. 620 The steel decks..being..covered with deck-plank of teak or of pine.

deck plating n.

1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. ix. 110 Deck Plating and Planking.

deck-pump n.

deck-scrubber n.

1920 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 509/2 He..belaboured them methodically with a deck-scrubber.

deck-seat n.

1851 J. C. North Jrnl. 29 Sept. in M. O'Brien Evening when Alone (1993) III. i. 180 The two gentlemen & Hal rode on the outside there being deck seats.

deck-stool n.

deck-stringer n.

1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 102 The deck-stringer plate.

1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 331 Stringers are of two kinds, viz., hold and deck stringers.

deck-swabber n.

1883 F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius ix In ten minutes, the parade of deck~swabbers had passed.

deck-transom n.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Deck-transom, a horizontal timber under a ship's counter.

deck-trumpet n.

1838 J. F. Cooper Eve Effingham I. ii. 52 A capital watch..and a deck-trumpet, in solid silver.

deck-watch n.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xvii. 201 One of our deck-watch, who had been cutting ice for the melter.

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deck-beam n. one of the strong transverse beams supporting the deck of a ship.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > deck or hold beams

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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Deck-beams.

1876 C. H. Davis Narr. North Polar Exped. Ship Polaris i. 29 New deck-beams of increased size were put in.

deck-boy n. a boy employed on the deck of a vessel.

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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > deck-hand

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1900 Westm. Gaz. 22 Mar. 5/2 Prisoner said he was deck-boy on board the Carisbrook Castle.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 12/1 The owner..sent his son, the deck-boy, down to the engineer.

deck-bridge n. (a) a narrow platform above and across the deck of a steamer amidships; = bridge n.¹ 7b; (b) a bridge in which the roadway is laid on the top of the truss (opposed to a through bridge).

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > bridge > bridge of other specific construction

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck superstructure > bridge

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1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 681/2 Deck-bridge, one in which the track occupies the upper stringer, as distinguished from one in which the track, whether for cars or carriages, rests on the lower stringer.

deck-cargo n. = deck-load vb.

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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > cargo

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1861 Chambers's Encycl. at Cargo The term deck-cargo is given to the commodities on the deck of a ship, which are not usually included in the policy of insurance.

deck class n. a grade of accommodation entitling a person to deck-space only on board a ship.

1953 A. Smith Blind White Fish in Persia ii. 32 The second and third classes were more cosmopolitan;..all three could look down with equal disdain upon the deck class.

1953 A. Smith Blind White Fish in Persia ii. 32 The deck class passengers began to look around for sheltered niches in which to spend the night.

1969 J. H. Vance Deadly Isles (1970) iii. 23 If he was lucky he might still find a berth available. If not, he'd go deck class, like the Polynesians.

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deck-collar n. U.S. the iron collar or ring through which the stovepipe passes in the roof of a railway carriage; cf. deck-plate n.

deck-feather n. (see quot.).

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the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > other specific types

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1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 7/1 Deck feathers, the two centre tail-feathers.

deck-feed pump n. (see quot. 1874).

1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 681/2 Deck-feed Pump (Nautical), a hand-pump used for washing decks, feeding the boiler, etc.

deck-flats n. (see flat n.³).

deck-hand n. a ‘hand’ or workman employed on the deck of a vessel.

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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > deck-hand

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deck-boy1900

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deckie-learner1934

1844 Knickerbocker 23 88 On board of one of the steam-boats on the Mississippi, I encountered a deck-hand, who went by the name of Barney.

1885 U. S. Grant Pers. Mem. I. xxi. 288 From captain down to deck-hand.

deck-head n. a name for the slipper limpet (Crepidula).

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Chinaman's hat1851

deck-head1881

1881 Scribner's Monthly Sept. 656/1 Beds of jingles or amber-shells..deck heads..limpets, and other rock-loving mollusks.

deck-hook n. ‘the compass timber bolted horizontally athwart a ship's bow, connecting the stem, timber, and deck-planks of the fore-part; it is part and parcel of the breast-hooks’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > connecting timber

binding1626

bind1803

hog piece1844

deck-hook1850

hog1948

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 101 The breast-hooks that receive the ends of the deck-planks are also called Deck-Hooks.

deck-house n. a ‘house’ or room erected on the deck of a ship.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck superstructure > deckhouse

top-house1803

deck-house1856

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. x. 106 Ohlsen and Petersen building our deck-house.

1882 Daily News 24 May 1/1 Good accommodation is..provided for second-class passengers in a commodious deck-house.

deck-lander n. an aeroplane designed to be able to land on a ship's deck.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > which can operate from aircraft carrier

ship plane1919

deck-lander1928

1928 Daily Tel. 18 Sept. 11/4 It [sc. the autogiro] should be able to act as a deck-lander on almost any ship.

1961 E. Brown Wings on my Sleeve viii. 83 The Sea Hornet, a twin-engined deck-lander developed from the Mosquito, followed on the heels of the single-seater Hawker Sea Fury.

deck-light n. a thick glass let into a deck to light a cabin below.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening in deck > for communication, light, or air

scuttle1497

scuttle-hole1684

deck-light1849

1849 N. Kingsley Diary 7 Mar. (1914) 7 Mate arrived today, Mr. Webb, put in deck lights & scuttle to house on deck.

deck-load n.

1757 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1910) XLVI. 273 They hove overboard the Deck Load of Lumber.

1840 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. 357 Horrible negligence,—a deck-load of cotton!

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Deck-load, timber, casks, or other cargo not liable to damage from wet, stowed on the deck of merchant vessels.

deck-load v. to load with a cargo upon the deck; also figurative.

1884 W. E. Gladstone in Standard 29 Feb. 2/7 We are determined..not to deck-load our Franchise Bill.

deck-nail n. ‘a kind of spike with a snug head, commonly made in a diamond form’ (Smyth).

1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 126 Deck-nails..are proper for fastning of Decks in Ships.

deck-pipe n. ‘an iron pipe through which the chain cable is paid into the chain-locker’ (Smyth).

c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 55 The hawse boxes, or deck pipe.

deck-plate n. (see quot.).

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Deck-plate, a plate around the chimney of a marine-engine furnace to keep the same from contact with the wood of the deck.

deck-pot n. a pot used on whaling vessels to receive the scraps.

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1904 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 5 Mar. 23551 The oil flows freely..into the pots, while the refuse..is thrown into another receptacle, called the deck-pot.

deck quoits n. a game played, chiefly on board ships, by throwing a rope quoit over a peg.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > shipboard games > [noun]

dilly-dally1698

King Arthur1785

shovel-board1836

sling the monkey1838

horse-billiards1869

deck quoits1907

deck tennis1927

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 1022/2 Deck quoits. As used on all steamships, and can be played in any sized room or lawn.

1971 ‘A. Garve’ Late Bill Smith ii. 64 The last time I was on a cruise a man died through over-exertion in a deck quoits competition.

deck-sheet n. ‘that sheet of a studding-sail which leads directly to the deck, by which it is steadied until set’ (Smyth).

deck-stopper n. ‘a strong stopper used for securing the cable forward of the capstan or windlass while it is overhauled; also abaft the windlass or bitts to prevent more cable from running out’ (Smyth).

c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 56 A ‘double wall’ or deck stopper-knot.

deck-tackle n. a tackle led along the deck, for hauling in cable, etc.

deck tennis n. a game played esp. on the deck of a ship by tossing a ring or quoit of rubber, rope, etc., back and forth over a net.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > shipboard games > [noun]

dilly-dally1698

King Arthur1785

shovel-board1836

sling the monkey1838

horse-billiards1869

deck quoits1907

deck tennis1927

1927 Delineator Mar. 9 They played deck-tennis and shuffleboard.

1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. iii. vi. 530 The deck-tennis court was empty when Bella and Mick wanted to play.

1965 E. Brown Big Man ix. 77 The other passengers..had declined..preferring the Sports Deck and their deck tennis.

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deck shoe n. a shoe designed to be worn on the deck of a boat or ship (usually in plural); spec. (a) British a flat canvas shoe with a rubber sole, similar to a plimsoll; (b) North American a laced shoe with a leather upper and rubber sole, frequently with a second lace running around the sides and back of the shoe.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > made from specific material > canvas

sand-shoes1858

boat shoe1865

deck shoe1879

plimsoll1885

tennis shoe1887

sneaker1895

pump1897

tackiec1902

Ked1917

puss shoe1938

puss boot1942

runner1970

1879 Times 21 July 14/4 (advt.) Deck shoes, 12s. 6d.

1960 Holland (Mich.) Evening Sentinel 25 May 5/1 (advt.) Amazing new deck shoe has 360° gripping action.

2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 xviii. 450 I imagined him..at the county set—the jeans and the deck shoes, the Hackett polo shirts—in a uniform as strict as Mao ever gave the world.

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Music. In plural (usually with the). = turntable n. Additions.

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1989 Independent 9 Feb. 32/7 The crucial year for the diminutive DJ, still only 23, was 1983 when he replaced Paul Murphy behind the decks at London's Electric Ballroom.

1991 Rage 24 Oct. 58/3 ‘There ain't anyone investing in British rap,’ complains DJ Cesare, former decks man with Stereo MCs.

2010 Time Out N.Y. 11 Feb. 63/2 Label leader DJ Spun, who'll be on the decks all night long.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

deckv.

Brit.

/dɛk/, U.S.

/dɛk/

Forms: Also Middle English–1600s decke, 1500s dek, dekke.

Etymology: Not known before 16th cent.: apparently then of recent adoption < Flemish or Low German; compare Dutch dekken , Middle Dutch deken , decken to cover. The latter is = Middle Low German, Middle High German decken , Old High German dachjan , decchan < Old Germanic þakjan (whence Old Norse þekja , Old Frisian thekka , Old English þeccan to cover, roof over) a derivative verb from an ablaut-stem þek- , þak- , Indog. teg- to cover, whence Old Norse þak , Old High German dah , German dach covering, roof, Old English þæc , thatch n. In branch II a derivative of deck n.¹: compare to roof, floor, etc.

I. To cover or clothe.

†1. transitive. To cover; esp. to cover with garments, clothe. Obsolete.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)]

beteec893

wryOE

heelOE

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forhilla1300

covera1400

curea1400

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paviliona1509

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heild?a1513

deck?1521

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line1572

skin1618

operculate1623

endue1644

theek1667

to do over1700

sheugh1755

occlude1879

?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. A This lusty Codrus, was cloked for the rayne And double decked with hoodes one or twayne.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. v. 92 Queyn Amatha..Dekkis and defendis hym with wordis sle.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) x. xiii. 106 Ene, That..hys sovir targe erekkit, And thar vndre hym haldis closly dekkyt.

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Cii Decke your hofte.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Hag. i. A Ye decke [1611 clothe] youre selues, but ye are not warme.

1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iv. 174 No place is vnder sky so closely deckt, Which gold not opes.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xviii. 461 Take away the barke..and after inuest & decke vp therewith some shoote that is of the like thickenes with the graft.

a. To clothe in rich or ornamental garments; to cover with what beautifies; to array, attire, adorn.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] > ornament

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glorify?1504

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bespangle1675

irradiate1717

gem1747

begem1749

redeck1771

blazon1813

aggrace1825

diamond1839

panoply1851

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > dress up or dress elaborately

disguisec1325

quaintisea1333

guisea1400

to dress up?a1513

deck?1521

garnisha1535

trim1594

gallant1614

sprug1622

dizena1625

to dress out1649

bedizen1661

rig1723

trim1756

bedress1821

gaudy1838

buck up1854

garb1868

clobber1887

mum1890

to do up1897

dude1899

toff1914

lair1941

?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Ciij Than is he decked, as poete laureate.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings ix. 30 She coloured hir face, and decked hir heade.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ps. ciii. 2 Thou deckest thyself with light as it were with a garment.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 241 I thought thy bride-bed to haue deckt sweet maide, And not haue strew'd thy graue.

1628 W. Prynne Vnlouelinesse of Louelockes 35 Much lesse, may we Curle, Die, or ouer-curiously decke our Haire.

1633 G. Herbert Jordan in Temple i Curling with metaphors a plain intention, Decking the sense.

1808 W. Scott Marmion i. xxviii. 50 The scallop shell his cap did deck.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 63 Daisies deck the green.

1885 Manch. Examiner 9 July 4/7 The shipping..was profusely decked with flags.

b. with out, †up.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)]

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graith1297

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to fit out1722

encase1725

tog1793

trick1821

to fig out1825

enclothe1832

toilet1842

to get up1858

habilitate1885

tailor1885

kit1919

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] > ornament > trim or deck out

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enflourish?a1400

varnish14..

perform1420

to pick outc1429

polish?1440

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to set out1523

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to do off1794

dizen1807

tricolatea1825

fal-lal1845

1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vii. i. 169 In decking up of the body.

1640 Sir R. Baker in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1878) V. Ps. cxvi. 11–15 To serve for a jewel in the decking up of God's cabinet.

1738 Defoe's Compl. Eng. Tradesman (ed. 4) I. v. 44 Deck'd out with long wigs and swords.

1882 B. D. W. Ramsay Recoll. Mil. Serv. II. xv. 64 Every vessel being gaily decked out with flags.

†3. To array, fit out, equip. Obsolete.

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the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide or supply (a person or thing) with anything > equip or outfit

frameOE

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to fit up1670

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to fit out1722

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outfit1798

habilitate1824

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heel1873

?15.. Agincourt 90 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. II. 97 The wastes decked with serpentynes stronge, Saynt Georges stremers sprede ouer hede.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxii The kyng..decked and vitailed dyuers shippes of warre and sent them to the North seas to defende his subiectes.

II. To provide with a deck; to assemble or pile up.

4. Nautical. To cover as with a deck; to furnish with a deck; to deck in, to deck over, to cover in with the deck, in ship-building.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > specific parts

stem1585

deck1624

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 175 At last it was concluded, to decke their long boat with their ship hatches.

1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 6 Flat Boats..tho' small, yet so close Deck't, that in a rough Sea they will go quite under the waves and retain no water.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 256 The five-men-boat is decked at each end, but open in the middle.

1874 J. Deady in Law Times Rep. 31 231/2 The vessel..was..decked over, fore and aft.

1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 121 Your ship has been built and designed, closed and decked in.

5. Mining. To load or unload (the tubs upon the cage). (See deck n.¹ 3) Chiefly U.S.

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1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 76 Decking, the operation of changing the tubs on a cage at top and bottom of a shaft.

6. In Lumbering: to pile up (logs) on a skidway. U.S.

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1901 Munsey's Mag. June 392/1 Other men pile—technically, ‘deck’—them [sc. logs] exactly as in the woods.

1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 35 Deck up.

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to deck out

intransitive. Rock Climbing. To hit the ground (as a result of a fall while climbing).

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1985 Mountain May 17/2 The day before, Phizacklea had climbed the first pitch after previously decking out from the crux.

2001 A. Huber et al. Wall 51/2 The initial fear of making a mistake and free-falling 300 metres to deck out on the rocks below gradually gives way to a feeling of absolute safety.

2010 J. Long How to Rock Climb! (ed. 5) viii. 278 You'll probably singe your clothes and perhaps your leg, but it's better than decking out from on high.

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7. To knock (someone) to the ground, esp. with a punch; to floor. slang (originally U.S.).

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low > knock down > specifically a person or animal

fellOE

to strike down1470

quell1535

to run down1587

to trip (also turn, tumble, kick, etc.) up a person's heels1587

to strike up the heels of1602

level1770

silence1785

grass1814

send1822

to send to grass1845

beef1926

deck1953

1953 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 4 Apr. 118/4 They might wheel and deck me.

1968 Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 18 Nov. 5/2 Starr gave way to Zeke Bratkowski early in the third quarter after being decked on an 11-yard scramble.

1970 Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 16/1 Before the..flight in Toronto, Jimmy Ellis decked him.

1977 O. Schell China (1978) iii. 267 After the robbery, I get decked by an incensed worker, who has been reborn in a whirlwind of anti-inflationist righteous wrath.

1985 G. V. Higgins Penance for Jerry Kennedy xxiv. 194 Janet got you riled enough so that you decided to deck Janet. Janet called the cops.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	deck
释义	deckn.¹ Brit. /dɛk/, U.S. /dɛk/ Forms: Also Middle English dekke, 1500s–1600s decke. Etymology: In sense 1, apparently of Flemish or Low German origin. In sense 1, probably < Middle Dutch dec (neuter) roof, covering, cloak, pretext (apparently < decke < Old Germanic þakjo^m , from same root as deck v.): compare Kilian ‘decke operimentum, lodix = decksel operimentum, opertorium, tegumen, tegumentum, tegmen, stragulum’; also modern Dutch dek bed-covering, horse-cloth. But in the nautical sense, 2, the word is not known in Dutch before 1675–81, when dek (neuter) appears as a synonym of verdek, quoted in the nautical sense in 1640, but recorded by Kilian, 1599, only in the general sense ‘tegumen, velamen’. Thus, deck in the nautical sense, appears to be known in English 160 years earlier than in Dutch. It may be simply a specific application of the general sense ‘covering’, or it may come more immediately from the Middle Dutch sense ‘roof.’ I. A covering, platform, or surface. †1. A covering. Obsolete.In quot. 1466 apparently some material used for covering; with 1712 cf. Dutch dek ‘horse-cloth’. ΘΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering wrielsc825 coverc1320 hillingc1325 eyelida1382 covering1382 casea1398 coverta1400 tegumentc1440 hacklea1450 coverturec1450 housingc1450 deck1466 heeler1495 housera1522 coverlet1551 shrouda1561 kever1570 vele1580 periwig1589 hap1593 opercle1598 integument?1611 blanketa1616 cask1646 operiment1650 coverlid1654 tegment1656 shell?1677 muff1687 operculum1738 tegmen1807 1466 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 348 My mastyr paid to John Felawe, for xij. yerdes of dekke for the spynas, iijs. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xx^v Do on your Decke Slut,..I mean your Copyntanke. 1712 London Gaz. No. 4997/4 A red Saddle with 2 Ovals in the Skirt, and the under Decks edg'd with blue. 2. a. Nautical. A platform extending from side to side of a ship or part of a ship, covering in the space below, and also itself serving as a floor; formed of planks, or (in iron ships) of iron plating usually covered with planks.The primary notion was ‘covering’ or ‘roof’ rather than ‘floor’: see quots. 1550, 1624, and cf. 1466 at sense 1, where the ‘dekke for the spynas’ or pinnace, may have been a covering of canvas, tarpaulin, or the like. In early craft there was a deck only at the stern, so that 16th cent. writers sometimes use deck as equivalent to poop. In Elyot (1538), whence in Cooper, Huloet, and Baret, deck is erroneously made the equivalent of prora, instead of puppis. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck hatcha1375 orlop1420 over loftc1430 loft1488 deck1513 floor1683 main deck1730 1513 E. Echyngham Let. to Wolsey in A. Spont Lett. & Papers War France (1897) X. 152 And bycause I hade no rayles upon my dek I coyled a cable rounde a[long] dek, brest hye, and likwise in the waste. 1531 C. Morres Inv. Great Bark (Cott. MS. App. xxviii) In primis, the shype with oon over~lop. Item, a somer castell & a cloos tymber deck made from the mast forward whyche was made of laet. Item aboue the somer castel A deck from the mayne mast aftward. 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War (tr. Seyssel's Fr. version of Valla's Lat.) 191 They couered the former parte, and the mooste parte of their deckes [Fr. la plus part du couvert de leurs navires] w^t copper [Fr. cuir, leather]. 1578 J. Polemon All Famous Battels 193 The Moore hitting the decke, strake off the rudder. 1578 J. Polemon All Famous Battels 320 (Battle of Lepanto) The decke of this galley..chequered and wroughte marvellous fayre with diuers colours and hystories..ingraued and wrought in golde. 1578 J. Polemon All Famous Battels 192 [Seafight at Cape of Orso, 1528] Philippino..levelling the first shotte of his Basilisco, with piercing the Emperiall Admirall, passed from the stemme to the decke, slaying thirtie men. 1578 W. Bourne Arte of Shooting xvi. 59 It is very evil for to have the Orlop or Deck too low under the port. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 198 Now on the Beake, Now in the Waste, the Decke, in euery Cabyn. View more context for this quotation 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. 63 In a broad Bay, out of danger of their shot..we vntyed our Targets that couered vs as a Deck. 1692 Delaval in London Gaz. No. 2769/3 15 Capital Ships, 10 whereof are of 3 Decks. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 39 A Boat with a Deck and a Sail. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxiii. 125 The captain walked the deck at a rapid stride. b. With qualifying words.The largest ships of the line had a main-deck, middle deck, and lower deck; also the upper deck or spar-deck, extending from stem to stern over the main-deck, and the orlop deck (which carried no guns) below the lower deck; they had also a poop-deck, or short deck in the after part of the ship above the spar-deck, and sometimes a forecastle deck, or similar short deck in the fore-part of the ship, sometimes retained in merchant ships and called the top-gallant forecastle. See also half-deck n., hurricane-deck n. at hurricane n. Compounds 2, quarterdeck n., etc. Π 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes I was but one to sit at sterne, to pricke my carde, to watch vpon the vpper decke. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 6 A Flush Decke is when from stem to sterne, it lies vpon a right line fore and aft. 1637 T. Heywood True Descr. Royall Ship 45 She hath three flush Deckes, and a Fore-Castle, an halfe Decke, a quarter Decke, and a round-house. a1643 W. Monson Naval Tracts iii, in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. (1704) III. 346/1 They make close the Forecastle and Half-Deck. a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 12 I see a man that's in the lower deck. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xii. 186 Easthupp would constantly accost him familiarly on the forecastle and lower deck. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xiii. 208 He then proceeded to the quarter-deck. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. x. 297 To comply with the captain's orders on the main deck. c. In phrases, as above deck (also figurative), between-decks adv. and n., on deck, under deck(s; to clear the decks, sweep the decks (see clear v., sweep v.). on deck (figurative, originally U.S.): at hand; ready for action; alive; in Baseball, next at the bat, with the right or privilege of batting next. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > in preparation [phrase] > in a state of preparation or readiness > for action or work to be in the saddle1581 ball, bullet in (en) bouche1582 bullet in mouth1692 in wind1768 on deck1867 the world > life > source or principle of life > [adverb] > alive aliveOE above ground1613 vitally1692 on deck1889 a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. i. 87 Mi. Ford. Ile bee sure to keepe him aboue decke. Mi. Page. So will I: if hee come vnder my hatches, Ile neuer to Sea againe. View more context for this quotation 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 419 Now hang the lighted Lanthorns betwixt decks and in the Hold. a1679 W. Gurnall in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1872) III. Ps. lxv. 3 Poor Christian, who thinkest that thou shalt never get above deck. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 17 Committed to Prison on board the Ships..where they were kept under Decks. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 204 The rest run..down between Decks. 1857 R. Tomes Americans in Japan iv. 110 [He] left the banquet to be discussed by his officers and men, who..soon cleared the decks. 1867 Ball Players' Chron. 26 Sept. 5/4 Well, I went on deck and took up a bat. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxii. 274 Angels..are always on deck when there is a miracle to the fore. 1889 Lisbon (Dakota Territory) Star 26 Apr. 4/2 A. H. Moore..was kicked by a horse, a cow and a colt.., but is still on deck. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) xix. 328 I couldn't bring it [sc. oakum] up here if Jame was on deck. She'd be down on me like a ton of lead. 1950 Here & Now (N.Z.) Dec. 12/1 If I am on deck when that time comes you will have a strong advocate for reinstatement in the service. 1966 Times 28 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. x/4 Dice games and three-card monte are not, so to speak, on deck but bingo flourishes. 3. a. Mining. (See quot. 1888.) ΚΠ 1888 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham (ed. 3) 31 Deck, the platform of a cage upon which the tubs stand when being drawn up or lowered down the pit. b. By extension, any kind of floor or platform, as the floor of a pier or landing-stage, or the platform or roadway of a deck-bridge (see also quot. 1938). ΘΠ the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > quality of being raised or elevated > raised level surface or platform plancher1295 staging1323 cagea1400 scaffoldc1405 mounture?a1425 halpace1507 wharf1533 platform1557 plat1559 foot pace1571 theatre1587 scenec1612 estrade1696 suggestum1705 tribune1763 scaffolding1787 estrado1838 dais1861 deck1872 1872 Porcupine XIV. 314/2 The decks of the three stages being swept pretty clear, by the devastating fire of the enemy. 1876 Porcupine XVIII. 330/1 Its deck is fairly rotting away. 1883 Specif. Alnwick & Cornhill Railway 45 The girders are connected by a wrought-iron deck. 1910 A. Williams Engin. Wonders of World III. 282 The old suspension truss, which could then be removed piece by piece to make room for the upper deck. 1938 L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss. 56 Deck, one floor of a stack room containing the bookshelves, lifts, and workrooms. (American.) 1955 Times 9 May 18/2 Multi-deck car parks with direct access to the stores. 1961 Daily Tel. 19 Jan. 13/2 Other upper level walkways..include those on a ‘deck’ on the London Pavilion site. 1970 Times 9 Feb. 13/3 A service area and parking deck for 650 vehicles on the second floor. c. Aeronautics. A main aeroplane surface, esp. of a biplane or multiplane; a wing. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > plane or aerofoil sail1808 plane1809 deck1843 surface1843 aeroplane1866 aerocurve1894 airplane1896 aerofoil1907 sustainer1908 airfoil1922 1843 G. Cayley in Mechanics' Mag. 8 Apr. 275/1 Would it not be more likely to answer the purpose to compact it into the form of a three decker, each deck being 8 to 10 ft. from the other, to give free room for the passage of air between them? 1910 A. Williams Engin. Wonders of World III. 7/2 The biplane, with two ‘decks’ set one above the other. 1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 287 Decks, the wings of an airplane. d. The floor of an omnibus or tramcar; top or upper deck, the upper floor or compartment of a double-decked vehicle. Π 1870 [implied in: Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1867–8 7 460 Sheep arrive here from the west in single decked cars, but leave in double decked ones. (at double-deck n.)]. 1906 Daily Chron. 11 Sept. 7/1 The cars..have no upper deck, and carry only thirty-six passengers, as compared with accommodation for sixty-six in and on the double-deck pattern. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §474 Top decks of double-decked tramcars. 1966 P. Moloney Plea for Mersey 33 The best place to hear examples of all these quaint circumlocutions is the top deck of Liverpool's buses. 1968 Listener 26 Dec. 855/2 Two American soldiers sat on the lower deck of a bus smoking cigars. e. Aeronautics slang. The ground; spec. the landing-ground of an aerodrome. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > ground > [noun] ground971 earthOE fleta1000 foldOE landOE floor?a1400 soila1400 margin?a1425 yird1433 sulye1434 swardc1440 leaa1475 paithmentc1480 visagea1500 crust1555 mother earth1568 solum1829 carpet1918 deck1925 dutty1925 1925 Punch 11 Nov. 521 R.A.F. Officer (unhorsed). Oh, he just stalled on top of the loop, did a roll and left me hangin' on the straps; then spun into the deck. 1941 War Illustr. 29 Aug. 93/1 I didn't see the bombs drop, but Mac, the rear-gunner, yelled over the inter-comm in a broad Scots accent—‘There's one on the deck.’ 1958 ‘N. Shute’ Rainbow & Rose vii. 276 She spun her Moth into the deck. f. The surface of a tape recorder above which the tape moves, together with its attachments such as the motor(s) and other mechanisms, the magnetic heads, and the circuits immediately associated with them, the whole being built as a single unit; any device for moving tape from one spool to another past magnetic heads; more fully as tape deck. Also, the corresponding part of a system for playing gramophone records. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > using tape > part of recording head1889 pinch wheel1898 capstan1948 deck1949 pinch roller1949 tape deck1949 pinch roll1953 stacked head1954 tape transport1954 1949 Electronic Engin. 21 149/3 At present the ‘Tapedeck’ recorder is available to manufacturers only who will fit the recorder into their own amplifying equipment. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 249 Professional tape decks and some domestic decks have two further motors for the feed and take up spools. 1964 F. L. Westwater Electronic Computers iv. 67 Tape does not run continuously, but as required by the computer. It is mounted on what is called a Tape Deck. a1965 Manual of ‘Ferrograph’ Series 6 (Model 631) 4 The instrument resolves itself into three main units:—A. The mechanical deck carrying the motors, heads, reels, etc. B. The power unit and oscillator. C. The amplifier chassis containing the amplifier, monitor meter, etc. a1965 Manual of ‘Ferrograph’ Series 6 (Model 631) 27 The mechanical unit is situated entirely on the hinged deck of the instrument. 1971 Observer 28 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 33/2 (advt.) The Garrard range..means you can tailor a deck to suit your needs... Perfect sound and record care for years. 4. In U.S. ‘A passenger-car roof, particularly the clear-story roof’ ( Standard Dict.). II. A pack or pile of things, and related uses. 5. a. ‘A pack of cards piled regularly on each other’ (Johnson); also the portion of the pack left, in some games, after the hands have been dealt. Since 17th cent. dialect and in U.S. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > pack bunch1563 pack1583 deck1594 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > portion of pack not dealt stock1584 deck1594 talon1862 1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus sig. F4^v If I chance but once to get the decke, To deale about and shufle as I would. 1594 R. Barnfield Shepheard Content viii. sig. Eiij Pride deales the Deck whilst Chance doth choose the Card. 1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 v. i. 44 But whilst he sought to steale the single ten, The king was finelie fingerd from the decke. 1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. D1^v Ile deale the cards and cut ye from the decke. 1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra i. iii. §21 The Selenites [have the shape], of Parallel Plates, as in a Deck of Cards. 1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. (1849) II. 449 In some parts of the North of England a pack of cards is called to this day..a deck of cards. 1860 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) 1882 B. Harte Flip 135 I reckon the other fifty-one of the deck ez as pooty. 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Deck o' cards, a pack of cards. 1885 Cent. Mag. 29 548/1 An old ratty deck of cards. b. A packet of narcotics; a small portion of some drug wrapped in paper. U.S. slang. ΚΠ 1922 E. F. Murphy Black Candle (1926) i. v. 52 Small paper packages [of cocaine]..are called ‘decks’, and contain about a couple of sniffs. 1927 Flynn's 9 July 462/2 At night it was ‘snow’ that went over the counter..to poor devils who left behind them three dollars..for a deck. 1949 ‘J. Evans’ Halo in Brass (1951) iv. 29 A deck of nose candy for sale to the right guy. 1966 C. Himes Heat's On iii. 27 When it's analysed, they'll find five or six half-chewed decks of heroin. †6. a. A pile of things laid flat upon each other. ΘΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > a layer > [noun] > layered arrangement > layered structure or object deck1625 multilayer1932 millefeuille1967 1625 F. Markham Bk. Honour ii. vi. 63 Any whose Pedigree lyes so deepe in the decke, that few or none will labour to find it. 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd xix. 185 Subtill words, whereof such as shee are never to seeke, but have them still ready in the deck. 1634 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 287 So long as these things should hang upon the file, or lie in the deck, he might perhaps be safe. 1673 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd II. 394 A certain Declaration..which you have kept in deck until this season. b. Part of a newspaper, periodical, etc., headline containing more than one line of type, esp. the part printed beneath the main headline. Also attributive. Π 1935 H. Straumann Newspaper Headlines i. 28 These are first decks (and streamers) only. 1935 H. Straumann Newspaper Headlines iii. 87 The first three lines or ‘decks’ as they would be called in present-day journalism. 1965 L. H. Whitten Progeny of Adder (1966) 127 The eight-column headline told him of Pantelein's body being found. But it was the ‘deck’ headline that held him: county coroner cites ‘vampirism’. †7. Of a cannon: see quot. 1672. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1672 tr. Compleat Gunner i. iv. 5 in T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline iii The Pumel or Button at her Coyl or Britch-end is called the Casacabel or her Deck. Compounds C1. General attributive (from sense 2.) deck-cabin n. Π 1902 Westm. Gaz. 28 July 2/1 He..writes pictured post-cards at the deck-cabin table. deck-cleat n. Π 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Deck-cleats, pieces of wood temporarily nailed to the deck to secure objects in bad weather. deck-cricket n. Π 1891 Scribner's Mag. 10 278 Deck cricket, quoits, and cock-fighting enliven the forenoons. deck-flat n. Π 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 60/1 Wood ships with wood beams have their deck-flats formed by planking laid upon and fastened to the beams. deck-framing n. Π 1894 Outing 24 396/1 Everything else, including the deck-framing and deck is of the same kind of material as those used in a regular battleship. deck-game n. Π 1896 S. A. Barnett Let. Sept. in H. Barnett Canon Barnett (1918) II. xxxvii. 118 Of course there are the deck games. 1971 ‘A. Garve’ Late Bill Smith ii. 45 There was..little provision for deck games. deck-officer n. deck-passage n. Π 1828 ‘C. Sealsfield’ Americans as they Are ix. 105 The great difference of fare between a cabin and a deck passage..contributes to establish a distinction in this assemblage of people. 1875 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 217/1 He only traveled deck passage because it was cooler. deck-passenger n. Π 1824 W. Owen Diary 6 Dec. in Indiana Hist. Soc. Publ. (1906) IV. 57 Here the steerage, or as they are called deck passengers, sit, eat and sleep. 1859 J. D. Burn Autobiogr. Beggar Boy (ed. 4) 114 Among the deck passengers there was a man and his wife with seven children. 1872 E. Eggleston End of World xxviii. 187 He passed through to the place where the steerage or deck passengers are. deck-plank n. Π 1884 E. J. Reed in Contemp. Rev. Nov. 620 The steel decks..being..covered with deck-plank of teak or of pine. deck plating n. Π 1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. ix. 110 Deck Plating and Planking. deck-pump n. deck-scrubber n. Π 1920 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 509/2 He..belaboured them methodically with a deck-scrubber. deck-seat n. Π 1851 J. C. North Jrnl. 29 Sept. in M. O'Brien Evening when Alone (1993) III. i. 180 The two gentlemen & Hal rode on the outside there being deck seats. deck-stool n. deck-stringer n. Π 1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 102 The deck-stringer plate. 1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 331 Stringers are of two kinds, viz., hold and deck stringers. deck-swabber n. Π 1883 F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius ix In ten minutes, the parade of deck~swabbers had passed. deck-transom n. Π 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Deck-transom, a horizontal timber under a ship's counter. deck-trumpet n. Π 1838 J. F. Cooper Eve Effingham I. ii. 52 A capital watch..and a deck-trumpet, in solid silver. deck-watch n. Π 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xvii. 201 One of our deck-watch, who had been cutting ice for the melter. C2. deck-beam n. one of the strong transverse beams supporting the deck of a ship. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > deck or hold beams transom1545 beam1627 wing-transom1711 stool1797 hold-beam1801 breast beam1805 skid beam1846 beak-head-beam1850 cat-beam1850 deck-beam1858 main-transom1867 spale1867 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Deck-beams. 1876 C. H. Davis Narr. North Polar Exped. Ship Polaris i. 29 New deck-beams of increased size were put in. deck-boy n. a boy employed on the deck of a vessel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > deck-hand decker1800 deck-hand1844 roustabout1860 rouster1870 deck-boy1900 deckie1913 deckie-learner1934 1900 Westm. Gaz. 22 Mar. 5/2 Prisoner said he was deck-boy on board the Carisbrook Castle. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 12/1 The owner..sent his son, the deck-boy, down to the engineer. deck-bridge n. (a) a narrow platform above and across the deck of a steamer amidships; = bridge n.¹ 7b; (b) a bridge in which the roadway is laid on the top of the truss (opposed to a through bridge). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > bridge > bridge of other specific construction pile bridge1758 thrusting-bridge1761 frame bridge1809 lock bridge1817 lattice-bridge1838 tubular bridge1850 girder-bridge1854 tubular1861 trestle-bridge1867 deck-bridge1874 transporter-bridge1893 gullet-bridge1896 crib-bridge1899 Bailey bridge1944 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck superstructure > bridge bridge1858 deck-bridge1874 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 681/2 Deck-bridge, one in which the track occupies the upper stringer, as distinguished from one in which the track, whether for cars or carriages, rests on the lower stringer. deck-cargo n. = deck-load vb. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > cargo fraughta1400 freightc1503 lading1526 furing1535 cargason1583 fraughting1598 fraughtagea1616 stowagea1640 cargo1657 package1669 fare1707 freightage1803 deck-cargo1861 shipment1861 1861 Chambers's Encycl. at Cargo The term deck-cargo is given to the commodities on the deck of a ship, which are not usually included in the policy of insurance. deck class n. a grade of accommodation entitling a person to deck-space only on board a ship. Π 1953 A. Smith Blind White Fish in Persia ii. 32 The second and third classes were more cosmopolitan;..all three could look down with equal disdain upon the deck class. 1953 A. Smith Blind White Fish in Persia ii. 32 The deck class passengers began to look around for sheltered niches in which to spend the night. 1969 J. H. Vance Deadly Isles (1970) iii. 23 If he was lucky he might still find a berth available. If not, he'd go deck class, like the Polynesians. Categories » deck-collar n. U.S. the iron collar or ring through which the stovepipe passes in the roof of a railway carriage; cf. deck-plate n. deck-feather n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > other specific types drivings1682 whisker1752 subaxillary1820 accessory plume1835 flake-feather1837 filoplume1867 penna1871 thread-feather1872 deck-feather1879 streamer1879 racket1887 afterfeather1937 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 7/1 Deck feathers, the two centre tail-feathers. deck-feed pump n. (see quot. 1874). Π 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 681/2 Deck-feed Pump (Nautical), a hand-pump used for washing decks, feeding the boiler, etc. deck-flats n. (see flat n.³). deck-hand n. a ‘hand’ or workman employed on the deck of a vessel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > deck-hand decker1800 deck-hand1844 roustabout1860 rouster1870 deck-boy1900 deckie1913 deckie-learner1934 1844 Knickerbocker 23 88 On board of one of the steam-boats on the Mississippi, I encountered a deck-hand, who went by the name of Barney. 1885 U. S. Grant Pers. Mem. I. xxi. 288 From captain down to deck-hand. deck-head n. a name for the slipper limpet (Crepidula). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > limpet > member of family Calyptraeidae bonnet limpet1770 bonnet1799 Chinaman's hat1851 deck-head1881 1881 Scribner's Monthly Sept. 656/1 Beds of jingles or amber-shells..deck heads..limpets, and other rock-loving mollusks. deck-hook n. ‘the compass timber bolted horizontally athwart a ship's bow, connecting the stem, timber, and deck-planks of the fore-part; it is part and parcel of the breast-hooks’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > connecting timber binding1626 bind1803 hog piece1844 deck-hook1850 hog1948 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 101 The breast-hooks that receive the ends of the deck-planks are also called Deck-Hooks. deck-house n. a ‘house’ or room erected on the deck of a ship. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck superstructure > deckhouse top-house1803 deck-house1856 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. x. 106 Ohlsen and Petersen building our deck-house. 1882 Daily News 24 May 1/1 Good accommodation is..provided for second-class passengers in a commodious deck-house. deck-lander n. an aeroplane designed to be able to land on a ship's deck. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > which can operate from aircraft carrier ship plane1919 deck-lander1928 1928 Daily Tel. 18 Sept. 11/4 It [sc. the autogiro] should be able to act as a deck-lander on almost any ship. 1961 E. Brown Wings on my Sleeve viii. 83 The Sea Hornet, a twin-engined deck-lander developed from the Mosquito, followed on the heels of the single-seater Hawker Sea Fury. deck-light n. a thick glass let into a deck to light a cabin below. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening in deck > for communication, light, or air scuttle1497 scuttle-hole1684 deck-light1849 1849 N. Kingsley Diary 7 Mar. (1914) 7 Mate arrived today, Mr. Webb, put in deck lights & scuttle to house on deck. deck-load n. Π 1757 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1910) XLVI. 273 They hove overboard the Deck Load of Lumber. 1840 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. 357 Horrible negligence,—a deck-load of cotton! 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Deck-load, timber, casks, or other cargo not liable to damage from wet, stowed on the deck of merchant vessels. deck-load v. to load with a cargo upon the deck; also figurative. Π 1884 W. E. Gladstone in Standard 29 Feb. 2/7 We are determined..not to deck-load our Franchise Bill. deck-nail n. ‘a kind of spike with a snug head, commonly made in a diamond form’ (Smyth). Π 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 126 Deck-nails..are proper for fastning of Decks in Ships. deck-pipe n. ‘an iron pipe through which the chain cable is paid into the chain-locker’ (Smyth). Π c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 55 The hawse boxes, or deck pipe. deck-plate n. (see quot.). Π 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Deck-plate, a plate around the chimney of a marine-engine furnace to keep the same from contact with the wood of the deck. deck-pot n. a pot used on whaling vessels to receive the scraps. ΚΠ 1904 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 5 Mar. 23551 The oil flows freely..into the pots, while the refuse..is thrown into another receptacle, called the deck-pot. deck quoits n. a game played, chiefly on board ships, by throwing a rope quoit over a peg. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > shipboard games > [noun] dilly-dally1698 King Arthur1785 shovel-board1836 sling the monkey1838 horse-billiards1869 deck quoits1907 deck tennis1927 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 1022/2 Deck quoits. As used on all steamships, and can be played in any sized room or lawn. 1971 ‘A. Garve’ Late Bill Smith ii. 64 The last time I was on a cruise a man died through over-exertion in a deck quoits competition. deck-sheet n. ‘that sheet of a studding-sail which leads directly to the deck, by which it is steadied until set’ (Smyth). deck-stopper n. ‘a strong stopper used for securing the cable forward of the capstan or windlass while it is overhauled; also abaft the windlass or bitts to prevent more cable from running out’ (Smyth). Π c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 56 A ‘double wall’ or deck stopper-knot. deck-tackle n. a tackle led along the deck, for hauling in cable, etc. deck tennis n. a game played esp. on the deck of a ship by tossing a ring or quoit of rubber, rope, etc., back and forth over a net. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > shipboard games > [noun] dilly-dally1698 King Arthur1785 shovel-board1836 sling the monkey1838 horse-billiards1869 deck quoits1907 deck tennis1927 1927 Delineator Mar. 9 They played deck-tennis and shuffleboard. 1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. iii. vi. 530 The deck-tennis court was empty when Bella and Mick wanted to play. 1965 E. Brown Big Man ix. 77 The other passengers..had declined..preferring the Sports Deck and their deck tennis. Draft additions June 2006 deck shoe n. a shoe designed to be worn on the deck of a boat or ship (usually in plural); spec. (a) British a flat canvas shoe with a rubber sole, similar to a plimsoll; (b) North American a laced shoe with a leather upper and rubber sole, frequently with a second lace running around the sides and back of the shoe. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > made from specific material > canvas sand-shoes1858 boat shoe1865 deck shoe1879 plimsoll1885 tennis shoe1887 sneaker1895 pump1897 tackiec1902 Ked1917 puss shoe1938 puss boot1942 runner1970 1879 Times 21 July 14/4 (advt.) Deck shoes, 12s. 6d. 1960 Holland (Mich.) Evening Sentinel 25 May 5/1 (advt.) Amazing new deck shoe has 360° gripping action. 2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 xviii. 450 I imagined him..at the county set—the jeans and the deck shoes, the Hackett polo shirts—in a uniform as strict as Mao ever gave the world. Draft additions December 2013 Music. In plural (usually with the). = turntable n. Additions. ΚΠ 1989 Independent 9 Feb. 32/7 The crucial year for the diminutive DJ, still only 23, was 1983 when he replaced Paul Murphy behind the decks at London's Electric Ballroom. 1991 Rage 24 Oct. 58/3 ‘There ain't anyone investing in British rap,’ complains DJ Cesare, former decks man with Stereo MCs. 2010 Time Out N.Y. 11 Feb. 63/2 Label leader DJ Spun, who'll be on the decks all night long. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022). deckn.² Brit. /dɛk/, U.S. /dɛk/ Forms: Also dekh. Etymology: < Hindi dekha sight, dekhnā to see, look at. colloquial (originally Anglo-Indian). A look, peep. Cf. dekko n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] eie wurpc950 laitc1175 looka1200 lecha1250 sightc1275 insighta1375 blushc1390 castc1400 glentc1400 blenkc1440 regardc1450 ray1531 view1546 beam of sight1579 eye-beam1583 eyewink1591 blink1594 aspecta1616 benda1616 eyeshot1615 eye-casta1669 twire1676 ken1736 Magdalene-look1752 glimmering1759 deek1833 wink1847 deck1853 vision1855 pipe1865 skeg1876 dekko1894 screw1904 slant1911 gander1914 squiz1916 butcher's hook1934 butcher's1936 gawk1940 bo-peep1941 nose1976 1853 W. D. Arnold Oakfield I. iv. 85 Some officer, stopping, as he passed by..‘just to have a dekh at the steamer’. 1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson Deck. 1951 E. Milne in Best One-act Plays 1950–51 (1952) 99 Crickey, have a deck at Ronald Colman! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). deckv. Brit. /dɛk/, U.S. /dɛk/ Forms: Also Middle English–1600s decke, 1500s dek, dekke. Etymology: Not known before 16th cent.: apparently then of recent adoption < Flemish or Low German; compare Dutch dekken , Middle Dutch deken , decken to cover. The latter is = Middle Low German, Middle High German decken , Old High German dachjan , decchan < Old Germanic þakjan (whence Old Norse þekja , Old Frisian thekka , Old English þeccan to cover, roof over) a derivative verb from an ablaut-stem þek- , þak- , Indog. teg- to cover, whence Old Norse þak , Old High German dah , German dach covering, roof, Old English þæc , thatch n. In branch II a derivative of deck n.¹: compare to roof, floor, etc. I. To cover or clothe. †1. transitive. To cover; esp. to cover with garments, clothe. Obsolete. ΘΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] beteec893 wryOE heelOE hilla1240 forhilla1300 covera1400 curea1400 covertc1420 paviliona1509 overdeck1509 heild?a1513 deck?1521 overhale1568 line1572 skin1618 operculate1623 endue1644 theek1667 to do over1700 sheugh1755 occlude1879 ?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. A This lusty Codrus, was cloked for the rayne And double decked with hoodes one or twayne. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. v. 92 Queyn Amatha..Dekkis and defendis hym with wordis sle. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) x. xiii. 106 Ene, That..hys sovir targe erekkit, And thar vndre hym haldis closly dekkyt. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Cii Decke your hofte. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Hag. i. A Ye decke [1611 clothe] youre selues, but ye are not warme. 1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iv. 174 No place is vnder sky so closely deckt, Which gold not opes. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xviii. 461 Take away the barke..and after inuest & decke vp therewith some shoote that is of the like thickenes with the graft. 2. a. To clothe in rich or ornamental garments; to cover with what beautifies; to array, attire, adorn. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] > ornament dightc1200 begoa1225 fay?c1225 rustc1275 duba1300 shrouda1300 adorna1325 flourishc1325 apparel1366 depaintc1374 dressa1375 raila1375 anorna1382 orna1382 honourc1390 paintc1390 pare1393 garnisha1400 mensk?a1400 apykec1400 hightlec1400 overfretc1440 exornc1450 embroider1460 repair1484 empare1490 ornate1490 bedo?a1500 purfle?a1500 glorify?1504 betrap1509 broider1509 deck?1521 likelya1522 to set forth1530 exornate1539 grace1548 adornate1550 fardc1550 gaud1554 pink1558 bedeck1559 tight1572 begaud1579 embellish1579 bepounce1582 parela1586 flower1587 ornify1590 illustrate1592 tinsel1594 formalize1595 adore1596 suborn1596 trapper1597 condecorate1599 diamondize1600 furnish1600 enrich1601 mense1602 prank1605 overgreen1609 crown1611 enjewel1611 broocha1616 varnish1641 ornament1650 array1652 bedub1657 bespangle1675 irradiate1717 gem1747 begem1749 redeck1771 blazon1813 aggrace1825 diamond1839 panoply1851 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > dress up or dress elaborately disguisec1325 quaintisea1333 guisea1400 to dress up?a1513 deck?1521 garnisha1535 trim1594 gallant1614 sprug1622 dizena1625 to dress out1649 bedizen1661 rig1723 trim1756 bedress1821 gaudy1838 buck up1854 garb1868 clobber1887 mum1890 to do up1897 dude1899 toff1914 lair1941 ?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Ciij Than is he decked, as poete laureate. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings ix. 30 She coloured hir face, and decked hir heade. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ps. ciii. 2 Thou deckest thyself with light as it were with a garment. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 241 I thought thy bride-bed to haue deckt sweet maide, And not haue strew'd thy graue. View more context for this quotation 1628 W. Prynne Vnlouelinesse of Louelockes 35 Much lesse, may we Curle, Die, or ouer-curiously decke our Haire. 1633 G. Herbert Jordan in Temple i Curling with metaphors a plain intention, Decking the sense. 1808 W. Scott Marmion i. xxviii. 50 The scallop shell his cap did deck. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 63 Daisies deck the green. 1885 Manch. Examiner 9 July 4/7 The shipping..was profusely decked with flags. b. with out, †up. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] wrya901 clothec950 shride971 aturnc1220 begoa1225 array1297 graith1297 agraithc1300 geara1325 cleadc1325 adightc1330 apparel1362 back1362 shape1362 attirea1375 parela1375 tirea1375 rayc1390 addressa1393 coverc1394 aguisea1400 scredea1400 shrouda1400 bedightc1400 buskc1400 harnessc1400 hatterc1400 revesta1449 able1449 dressa1450 reparel?c1450 adub?1473 endue?a1475 afaite1484 revestera1500 beclothe1509 trimc1516 riga1535 invest1540 vesture1555 suit1577 clad1579 investure1582 vest1582 deck1587 habit1594 to make ready1596 caparison1597 skin1601 shadow1608 garment1614 riga1625 raiment1656 garb1673 equip1695 to fit out1722 encase1725 tog1793 trick1821 to fig out1825 enclothe1832 toilet1842 to get up1858 habilitate1885 tailor1885 kit1919 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] > ornament > trim or deck out perfurnish1375 enflourish?a1400 varnish14.. perform1420 to pick outc1429 polish?1440 trimc1516 to set out1523 trick?1532 face1542 trick1545 prank1546 tricka1555 bawdefy1562 tickle1567 prink1573 finify1586 deck1587 decore1603 betrima1616 fangle1615 beprank1648 prim1688 to garnish outa1704 decorate1782 to do off1794 dizen1807 tricolatea1825 fal-lal1845 1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vii. i. 169 In decking up of the body. 1640 Sir R. Baker in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1878) V. Ps. cxvi. 11–15 To serve for a jewel in the decking up of God's cabinet. 1738 Defoe's Compl. Eng. Tradesman (ed. 4) I. v. 44 Deck'd out with long wigs and swords. 1882 B. D. W. Ramsay Recoll. Mil. Serv. II. xv. 64 Every vessel being gaily decked out with flags. †3. To array, fit out, equip. Obsolete. ΘΠ the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide or supply (a person or thing) with anything > equip or outfit frameOE dightc1275 fayc1275 graith1297 attire1330 purveyc1330 shapec1330 apparel1366 harnessc1380 ordaina1387 addressa1393 array1393 pare1393 feata1400 point1449 reparel?c1450 provide1465 fortify1470 emparel1480 appoint1490 deck?15.. equip1523 trim1523 accoutre1533 furnish1548 accommodate1552 fraught1571 suit1572 to furnish up1573 to furnish out1577 rig1579 to set out1585 equipage1590 outreik1591 befit1598 to furnish forth1600 fita1616 to fit up1670 outrig1681 to fit out1722 mount?1775 outfit1798 habilitate1824 arm1860 to fake out1871 heel1873 ?15.. Agincourt 90 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. II. 97 The wastes decked with serpentynes stronge, Saynt Georges stremers sprede ouer hede. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxii The kyng..decked and vitailed dyuers shippes of warre and sent them to the North seas to defende his subiectes. II. To provide with a deck; to assemble or pile up. 4. Nautical. To cover as with a deck; to furnish with a deck; to deck in, to deck over, to cover in with the deck, in ship-building. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > specific parts stem1585 deck1624 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 175 At last it was concluded, to decke their long boat with their ship hatches. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 6 Flat Boats..tho' small, yet so close Deck't, that in a rough Sea they will go quite under the waves and retain no water. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 256 The five-men-boat is decked at each end, but open in the middle. 1874 J. Deady in Law Times Rep. 31 231/2 The vessel..was..decked over, fore and aft. 1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 121 Your ship has been built and designed, closed and decked in. 5. Mining. To load or unload (the tubs upon the cage). (See deck n.¹ 3) Chiefly U.S. ΚΠ 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 76 Decking, the operation of changing the tubs on a cage at top and bottom of a shaft. 6. In Lumbering: to pile up (logs) on a skidway. U.S. ΚΠ 1901 Munsey's Mag. June 392/1 Other men pile—technically, ‘deck’—them [sc. logs] exactly as in the woods. 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 35 Deck up. Draft additions June 2015 to deck out intransitive. Rock Climbing. To hit the ground (as a result of a fall while climbing). ΚΠ 1985 Mountain May 17/2 The day before, Phizacklea had climbed the first pitch after previously decking out from the crux. 2001 A. Huber et al. Wall 51/2 The initial fear of making a mistake and free-falling 300 metres to deck out on the rocks below gradually gives way to a feeling of absolute safety. 2010 J. Long How to Rock Climb! (ed. 5) viii. 278 You'll probably singe your clothes and perhaps your leg, but it's better than decking out from on high. Draft additions 1993 7. To knock (someone) to the ground, esp. with a punch; to floor. slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low > knock down > specifically a person or animal fellOE to strike down1470 quell1535 to run down1587 to trip (also turn, tumble, kick, etc.) up a person's heels1587 to strike up the heels of1602 level1770 silence1785 grass1814 send1822 to send to grass1845 beef1926 deck1953 1953 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 4 Apr. 118/4 They might wheel and deck me. 1968 Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 18 Nov. 5/2 Starr gave way to Zeke Bratkowski early in the third quarter after being decked on an 11-yard scramble. 1970 Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 16/1 Before the..flight in Toronto, Jimmy Ellis decked him. 1977 O. Schell China (1978) iii. 267 After the robbery, I get decked by an incensed worker, who has been reborn in a whirlwind of anti-inflationist righteous wrath. 1985 G. V. Higgins Penance for Jerry Kennedy xxiv. 194 Janet got you riled enough so that you decided to deck Janet. Janet called the cops. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹1466n.²1853v.?15..
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