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Definition of Deckhouse
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deckhouse
Literary usage of Deckhouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In Northern Seas by Alfred Searcy, E. Whitington (1905)
"We aft had a wooden sieve, otherwise a deckhouse, with four bunks. which were
occupied in turn. The men forward ringed up a sail as well aa they could. ..."
2. Rudder by Thomas Fleming Day (1912)
"The deckhouse has its floor depressed two feet below the main deck. ... Beneath are
the engine room and galley, reached by a staircase from the deckhouse. ..."
3. The Merchant Seaman in War by Leslie Cope Cornford (1913)
"Her bulwarks were raised to the height of the poop deckhouse, and the passage
between the bulwarks and the deckhouse on either side was decked over, ..."
4. The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims, Burton Jesse Hendrick (1920)
"usual merchant ship uniform, and everything was as un- military as a merchant
ship usually is. The vessel had quite a long deckhouse built of light steel. ..."
5. Bulletin of the American Geographical Society by American Geographical Society of New York (1905)
"The deckhouse amidships has small rooms for the commander and officers, besides
kitchen, dining-room and chart-room, with a few bunks in the passageways. ..."
6. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1876)
"There was a refuge in the deckhouse over the first-class cabins until about two
o'clock, when a heavy sea, which ran up to the top of the mainmast, ..."
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