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An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate. Totten.

he again; to cover, as with a robe; to robe. Her, nathless, . . . the enchanterrevest and decked with due habiliments. Spenser.

occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beame of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame. Totten.

Having ample room; spacious; large; as, a roomy mansion; a roomy deck. Dryden.

circle so as not to indicate who signed first. "No round robins signed by the whole main deck of the Academy or the Porch." De Quincey. (b) (Zoöl.) The cigar fish. -- Round shot, a solid spherical projectile for ordnance. -- Round Table, the table about which sat King Arthur and his knights. See Knights of the Round…

A cabin or apartament on the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof; -- sometimes called the coach.

A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs. [Western U.S.]

The hole in the deck through which the rudderpost passes.

ape of the men into boats when the train is fired; a large port in an old-fashioned three-decker or a large modern ironclad.

esting on the keelson, and supporting a beam of the keelson, and supporting a beam of the deck; also, a temporary or movable pilar carrying a leading block or pulley for various purposes. Brande & C. (b) In deepwell boring, the post which supports the walking beam of the apparatus.

An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.

To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.

ir possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea. [Sailor's Cant] Totten.

fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, -- a common food of sailors; as, a three-decker sea pie.

Deck sweepings, refuse of cordage, canvas, etc. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.

orm or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face. Prior.

The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.

. See Illustation in Appendix. l Port or Larboard Side; s Starboard Side; 1 Roundhouse or Deck House; 2 Tiller; 3 Grating; 4 Wheel; 5 Wheel Chains; 6 Binnacle; 7 Mizzenmast; 8 Skylight; 9 Capstan; 10 Mainmast; 11 Pumps; 12 Galley or Caboose; 13 Main Hatchway; 14 Windlass; 15 Foremast; 16 Fore Hatchway; 17 Bitts; 18 Bow…

which the aim is to shove or drive with a cue wooden disks into divisions chalked on the deck; -- called also shuffleboard.