Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Upon deck: as, the above-deck cargo.
- Figuratively, without artifice; aboveboard: as, his dealings are all above-deck.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective On deck; and hence, like
aboveboard , without artifice.
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- adjective On
deck ; andhence , likeaboveboard , withoutartifice ;smart
Etymologies
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Examples
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There was a central cabin abovedeck and a narrow high poop from which a figure was steering the ship by means of an enormous oar.
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With his practiced eye, Jones could tell at once she was oversparred, with too much weight abovedeck.
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With his practiced eye, Jones could tell at once she was oversparred, with too much weight abovedeck.
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The death struggle had become two battles, a race to extinction on two fronts, one abovedeck, one below.
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The death struggle had become two battles, a race to extinction on two fronts, one abovedeck, one below.
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In a matter of moments, the only people remaining abovedeck were the pirate crewmen and those few slaves Etta had chosen to hold Kennit down.
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He could have stayed abovedeck, he could have insinuated himself back into the routine as ship's boy.
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Lucy found herself half wishing she was abovedeck to cheer him on.
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Somewhere abovedeck, a mast snapped with the macabre crack of splintering bone.
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Given his erratic behavior since bringing Lucy aboard, his crew was probably abovedeck plotting mutiny.
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