单词 | gun-deck |
释义 | gun-deckn. Nautical. A deck which carries guns; esp. in an old-fashioned ship of the line, the lowest of the decks on which guns are placed. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > gun deck gun-deck1677 1677 London Gaz. No. 1250/2 The English soon obliged them to quit their Upper-deck, and betake themselves to their Gun~deck. 1687 London Gaz. No. 2251/4 Could we have played our whole Gun-Deck Fire. 1691 London Gaz. No. 2690/4 The St. David is now got up so far, that her Gun Deck is dry at Low Water. 1691 W. Petty Treat. Naval Philos. in T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 125 Having found..the distance of Trunnions of the Guns from the Gun-deck..to determine the place of the Gun-deck. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Gun-room An appartment on the after end of the lower, or gun-deck, of a ship of war. 1780 Falconer's Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) at Hospital ship The gun-deck..is flush without cabins or bulk-heads. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 427 On her gun deck is the hospital, on the main deck the officers' quarters and the exercise ground for the sailors. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1677 |
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