Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, the part of the spar-deck of a man-of-war between the poop and the main-mast. It is used as a promenade by the officers only.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
quarterdeck .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the stern area of a ship's upper deck
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Examples
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I pushed immediately onwards for the quarter-deck, where I found Commander Berry in possession of the poop, and the Spanish ensign hauling down.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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That I might be discovered, I swung my oar in the air, jumped from rock to rock, and was guilty of all manner of livelinesses of action, until I could see the officers on the quarter-deck looking at me through their spyglasses.
Chapter 19 2010
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I trod the quarter-deck when I was a young man, though never the deck of the Wide Awake, which is the ship of my fancy -- and of my livelihood in these latter days.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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That I might be discovered, I swung my oar in the air, jumped from rock to rock, and was guilty of all manner of livelinesses of action, until I could see the officers on the quarter-deck looking at me through their spyglasses.
Chapter 19 2010
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He shoved me against a tree and planted himself four-square, hands thrust into pockets, quarter-deck style.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Nanty Ewart again walked his quarter-deck as if he had never tasted spirits in his life, issued the necessary orders with precision, and saw them executed with punctuality.
Redgauntlet 2008
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The parties were in some degree recalled to their more cool recollections by this expostulation, yet continued a short quarter-deck walk to and fro, upon parallel lines, looking at each other sullenly as they passed, and bristling like two dogs who have a mind to quarrel, yet hesitate to commence hostilities.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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Boldheart, reclining in full uniform on a crimson hearth-rug spread out upon the quarter-deck of his schooner ‘The Beauty,’ in the China seas.
A Holiday Romance 2007
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Boldheart, reclining in full uniform on a crimson hearth-rug spread out upon the quarter-deck of his schooner ‘The Beauty,’ in the China seas.
A Holiday Romance 2007
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The Mexican work she chose to despise as savage; but the Spanish dresses were a treasure; and for two or three days she appeared on the quarter-deck, sunning herself like a peacock before the eyes of Amyas in Seville mantillas, Madrid hats, Indian brocade farthingales, and I know not how many other gewgaws, and dare not say how put on.
Westward Ho! 2007
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