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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.

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  • noun A sail warship, which carried her 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 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 the third-rate or "seventy-four" being the archetype.

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Examples

  • We were "lucky" enough to join a group on the two-decker boat called the Lucky Lady.

    Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide 2009

  • But the hull of the ship is a recycled bone carving of a three-masted, two-decker warship mounting 66 guns.

    After Byzantium 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • Soon the Canadian informed me that she was a large, armoured, two-decker ram.

    Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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  • 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