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Definition of Deckings
1. decking [n] - See also: decking
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deckings
Literary usage of Deckings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission by Isthmian Canal Commission (U.S.), United States President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Canal Zone Governor (1912)
"Dated November 11, 1911, with JB Kendal Co., of Washington, DC, for cold twisted
square steel bars for reenforcing deckings over miter gate moving and ..."
2. Divine Dialogues Containing Disquisitions Concerning the Attributes and by Henry More (1743)
"... thtf indeed has as little'hurt in it as that kin"' of work in womens petticoats.
But the VI. Of the ridiculous deckings and ..."
3. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer (1909)
"Nay, arise and cut long beams, and fashion a wide raft with the axe, and lay
deckings high thereupon, that it may bear thee over the misty deep. ..."
4. Picturesque History of Yorkshire: Being an Account of the History by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1900)
"The toy here referred to was in all probability an image which had been used at
one of the old well-deckings, in celebrating which it was usual to construct ..."
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