half-deck

On this half-deck, immediately forward of the funnel, a deck-house was placed, arranged as a chart-house, from which two companions (one on each side) led down to the cabins.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

The beams of the main-deck are of American or German oak, those of the lower deck and half-deck of pitch-pine and Norwegian fir.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

He suggested a three-foot concrete “half-deck” over the cellar along the entire rear wall which would lie outside the floor plan of the house and which could serve very well as a terrace.

The Road Leads On 2003

Oh, August was no tyro in the field of building houses; he had both poured walls and built houses long years before, and he regarded this “half-deck” arrangement as anything but a practical solution to the problem at hand, for there would have to be a row of pillars to support it.

The Road Leads On 2003

I opened the door, went to the half-deck, went up the central stairs.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

The upper deck was similarly raised from the stern-post to the mainmast, forming a half-deck, under which the cabins were placed.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

Slowly, slowly the connecting rods begin to pick up speed, and the heat from the boiler builds, and more water spills across the heavy-timbered half-deck that holds the engine.

The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994

But it was unlike the interior of any ship I'd ever seen, it was so big and roomy; on either side, about four feet above the deck on which we stood, there was a kind of half-deck, perhaps seven feet deep, like a gigantic shelf, and above that yet another shelf of the same size.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

But it was unlike the interior of any ship I'd ever seen, it was so big and roomy; on either side, about four feet above the deck on which we stood, there was a kind of half-deck, perhaps seven feet deep, like a gigantic shelf, and above that yet another shelf of the same size.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

The two then crept in under the half-deck; and, covering themselves up with the cutter's gaff-topsail, which had been placed within the cabin along with some spare canvas, dropped off into a sound slumber, forgetting their sad plight and their hunger alike, in sleep, the yacht meanwhile still floating along, down Channel, in a west-by-north direction with the ebb.

Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene