Definition of Deck-house

1. Noun. A superstructure on the upper deck of a ship.

Generic synonyms: Superstructure
Group relationships: Upper Deck

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deck-house

decisteres
decitabine
decitizenize
decitizenized
decitizenizes
decitizenizing
decivilise
decivilised
decivilises
decivilising
decivilize
decivilized
decivilizes
decivilizing
deck
deck-house (current term)
deck chair
deck chairs
deck grip
deck of cards
deck out
deck roof
deck shoe
deck shoes
deck tennis
deck up
deckchair
deckchairs
decked
decked(p)

Literary usage of Deck-house

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1894)
"of the deck-house amidships, i on the port side of the spar-deck near the after end of deck-house amidships (a circle was placed on the opposite side, ..."

2. On the Stowage of Ships and Their Cargoes: With Information Regarding by Robert White Stevens (1871)
"The expression " upper passenger deck " signifies and includes the deck immediately beneath the upper deck, or the poop or round house and deck house when ..."

3. The Electrical Review (1881)
"Entrance to the saloon is had from a deck-house on the main deck ; the after-part of this house forms a smoking-room. In the wake of the small after- tank, ..."

4. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1869)
"Between the turrets a deck-house is built, of the ordinär}1 scantling of an ... This deck-house may be one, two, or three stories high, according to the ..."

5. Ocean Magnetic Observations, 1905-1916: And Reports on Special Researches by Louis Agricola Bauer, John Adam Fleming, William Francis Gray Swann, James Percy Ault, William John Peters (1917)
"Although separated from the old cabin by a solid bulkhead, the new deck-house appeared as a continuation of the original house, it being of the same width ..."

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