Lexic.us

Definition of Decker

1. Noun. English dramatist and pamphleteer (1572-1632).

2. Noun. (often used in combinations) something constructed with multiple levels. "They rode in a double-decker bus"

Definition of Decker

1. n. One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a table decker.

Definition of Decker

1. Noun. (''used in conjunction with a number'') Something having numerous levels. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Decker

1. something having a specified number of levels, floors, or layers [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decker

deck of cards deck out deck roof deck shoe deck shoes deck tennis deck up deckchair deckchairs decked

decked(p) decked out decked out(p) deckel deckels decker (current term) deckers deckhand deckhands deckhead

deckheads deckhouse deckhouses decking deckings deckle deckle-edged deckle edge deckled deckles

Literary usage of Decker

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

1. Reports of the Decisions of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York by New York (State). Court of Appeals, Austin Abbott (1873)
"decker. June, 1867. Upon a contract liquidating a debt, and providing that the times of ... Alfred Lee, as assignee of one Shannon, sued Simon decker, ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"to Ills purchase from decker, and that during the measurement he (Pauley) held the end of the line at the pin at the corner of the alley (the beginning ..."

3. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of public instruction, Pennsylvania State library, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania State Library (1914)
"decker, Henery, 6th S., II, 744. decker, Henry, 6th S., Ш, 874. decker ... decker, Jeremias, 6th S., II, 449. decker, John, 6th S., II, 571, 660. decker ..."

4. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"This compliment decker has amply repaid in his ... decker was but a middling poet, yet he did not want his admirers, even among the poets of his time ..."

5. History of the State of New York by John Romeyn Brodhead (1853)
"Johannes de decker, a young man of high charac- ~~ ter, who had formerly teen a public notary at Schiedam, had just arrived from Holland, with a letter from ..."

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