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Definition of Bridge deck
1. Noun. An upper deck where a ship is steered and the captain stands.
Specialized synonyms: Conning Tower, Fly Bridge, Flybridge, Flying Bridge, Monkey Bridge
Terms within: Pilothouse, Wheelhouse
Generic synonyms: Upper Deck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bridge Deck
Literary usage of Bridge deck
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"When a long bridge deck is plated, the upper and second decks in way of it may
be treated as the second and third decks, which, in effect, they are. ..."
2. Marine Engineer and Naval Architect (1900)
"All the available space under the shelter deck and along each side under the
bridge deck is fitted throughout to pass the American and Canadian regulations, ..."
3. Shipbuilding Cyclopedia: A Reference Book Covering Definitions of by J. L. Bates, Bibber Webster, Stephen McKay Phillips, Alfred Henry Haag (1920)
"bridge deck Stringer. See STRINGER, bridge deck. bridge deck Stringer Bar.
See STRINGER, BAR. ... The strake of outside plating adjacent to the bridge deck. ..."
4. Transactions of the North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders by North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders (1890)
"... a hogging strain fore and aft, reaching ite maximum near amidships, producing
a tensile stress on the bridge deck gunwale of 4£ tons per square inch. ..."
5. The Pit-Prop Syndicate by Freeman Wills Crofts (1922)
"From the lower deck two ladders led to the bridge deck at the forward end of
which was ... Aft of this building most of the remaining bridge deck was ..."
6. Journal of the Sanitary Institute by Sanitary Institute (Great Britain) (1897)
"17 is a plan showing living-rooms adjacent to engine-hatch, below the half bridge
deck, and in the immediate surroundings of engine-room, with doors leading ..."
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