Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vessel of war carrying guns on two decks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A vessel of war carrying guns on two decks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A sail
warship , which carried her guns on two fully-armed decks. Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works (forecastle andquarterdeck ) but this was not a continuous battery so were not counted. Two-deckers ranged all the way from the small 40-gun fourth-rate up to 80- or even 90-gun ships, with thethird-rate or "seventy-four " being the archetype.
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Examples
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We were "lucky" enough to join a group on the two-decker boat called the Lucky Lady.
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But the hull of the ship is a recycled bone carving of a three-masted, two-decker warship mounting 66 guns.
After Byzantium 2006
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The larger British warship swung open her gun ports and showed her teeth as a two-decker with a full lower gun deck of heavy cannon.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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The larger British warship swung open her gun ports and showed her teeth as a two-decker with a full lower gun deck of heavy cannon.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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Soon the Canadian informed me that she was a large, armoured, two-decker ram.
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She entered the Steamship Authority terminal in Woods Hole, bought her ticket, and got on a two-decker ferry called the
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas Patterson, James, 1947- 2001
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Alexander is supposed to be a two-decker, but no one mentioned that the second deck is being used as a hold because Alexander carries a lot of cargo and has no proper hold.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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She was a two-decker, smaller than the Pucelle, and her figurehead showed a monk with an uplifted hand holding a cross.
Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000
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One two-decker, the captured French Tonnant, carried eighty-four guns, while the other seven ships of the fleet were the towering triple-deckers with ninety-eight or a hundred guns.
Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000
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Alexander is supposed to be a two-decker, but no one mentioned that the second deck is being used as a hold because Alexander carries a lot of cargo and has no proper hold.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
reesetee commented on the word two-decker
A sail warship that carried guns on two fully armed decks. Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works (forecastle and quarterdeck), but this was not a continuous battery, so these were not counted.
December 4, 2007