noun. A platform extending horizontally from one side of a ship to the other.

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noun. A platform or surface likened to a ship's deck.

noun. A roofless, floored structure, typically with a railing, that adjoins a house.

noun. The roadway of a bridge or an elevated freeway.

noun. The piece of hard material, usually wood or composite, to which the frames housing the wheels are attached on a skateboard or landboard.

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noun. A pack of playing cards.

noun. A group of data processing cards.

noun. A tape deck.

transitive verb. To furnish with or as if with a deck.

transitive verb. To knock down.

idiom. (clear the deck) To prepare for action.

idiom. (hit the deck) To get out of bed.

idiom. (hit the deck) To fall or drop to a prone position.

idiom. (hit the deck) To prepare for action.

idiom. (on deck) On hand; present.

idiom. (on deck) Waiting to take one's turn, especially as a batter in baseball.

transitive verb. To clothe with finery; adorn. Often used with out:

transitive verb. To decorate.

To cover; overspread; invest; especially, to array or clothe with something resplendent or ornamental; adorn; embellish; set out: as, to deck one's self for a wedding; she was decked with jewels.

Nautical, to furnish with or as with a deck, as a vessel.

In mining, to load or unload (the cars or tubs) upon the cage.

[Cf. deck, n., 5.] To discard. Grose.

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noun. In car-building, the roof of the clearstory of a passenger-car, often called upper deck; also, the sloping roof on either side of the clearstory, often called lower deck. The word is used in many compounds, such as deck-hood, a projecting shelter to keep the rain out of the deck-end ventilator of a streetcar; deck-lamp, a gas-lamp suspended from the under side of the deck; deck-sash, a clearstory window.

To rig out: as, to deck the card-cylinder of a Jacquard loom.

noun. A covering; anything that serves as a sheltering cover.

noun. An approximately horizontal platform or floor extending from side to side of a ship or of a part of a ship, as of a deck-house, and supported by beams and carlines.

noun. In mining, the platform of the cage; that part of the cage on which the cars stand or the men ride. Cages are sometimes built with as many as four decks.

noun. A pile of things laid one upon another; a heap; a store; a file, as of cards or papers.

noun. A pack of cards containing only those necessary to play any given game: as, a euchre deck; a bezique deck.

noun. That part of a pack which remains after the deal, and from which cards may be drawn during the course of the game.

noun. To command every part of the deck, as with small arms, from the tops of an attacking vessel, To take off or carry away all the stakes on a card-table; hence, generally, to gain everything.

transitive verb. To cover; to overspread.

transitive verb. To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.

transitive verb. To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.

transitive verb. to knock down (a person) with a forceful blow.

noun. The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.

noun. a deck next below the gun deck, where the hammocks of the crew are swung.

noun. the deck on which the boilers are placed.

noun. any continuous, unbroken deck from stem to stern.

noun. a deck below the spar deck, on which the ship's guns are carried. If there are two gun decks, the upper one is called the main deck, the lower, the lower gun deck; if there are three, one is called the middle gun deck.

noun. that portion of the deck next below the spar deck which is between the mainmast and the cabin.

noun. the upper deck, usually a light deck, erected above the frame of the hull.

noun. the deck or part of a deck where the cables are stowed, usually below the water line.

noun. the deck forming the roof of a poop or poop cabin, built on the upper deck and extending from the mizzenmast aft.

noun. the part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one.

noun. Sometimes a light deck fitted over the upper deck.

noun. the highest deck of the hull, extending from stem to stern.

"I. ii.155 (14,6) [deck'd the sea] _To deck the sea_, if explained, to honour, adorn, or dignify, is indeed ridiculous, but the original import of the verb _deck_ is, _to cover_; so in some parts they yet say _deck the table_."

cold deck  deck side  deck snatch-block  deck ventilator  officer of the deck  

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accouter  ace  adorn  apparel  appoint  

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