under deck

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• Under

  ·prep Less specifically, denoting the relation of being subject, of undergoing regard, treatment, or...

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• Deck

  ·v A heap or store. II. Deck ·v The roof of a passenger car. III. Deck ·v A pack or set of playing...

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• Under-age

  ·adj Not having arrived at adult age, or at years of discretion; hence, raw; green; immature; boyish...

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• Under-arm

  ·adj Done (as bowling) with the arm not raised above the elbow, that is, not swung far out from the ...

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• Under-garment

  ·noun A garment worn below another. ...

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• under dubber

  A turnkey. ...

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• to cut under

  To undersell in price.--New York. ...

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• to knock under

  A common expression to denote that one yields or submits.--Johnson. For ten times ten, and that's a...

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• knuckle-under

  Obey your superior's order; give way to circumstances. ...

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• under-bevelling

  The alteration made inside a square in hewing timber, as opposed to standing bevelling. ...

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• under-bright

  A meteorological term for the strong light which sometimes appears below clouds near the horizon. ...

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• under canvas

  Synonymous with under sail. ...

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• under-current

  A stream which sets beneath the surface-water of the sea whilst that is either in a quiescent state ...

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• under foot

  Under the ship's bottom; said of an anchor which is dropped while she has head-way. An anchor is oft...

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• under level

  See bevelling. ...

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• under-manned

  When a ship has an insufficient complement, or is short-handed. ...

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• under-masted

  When the masts are either too small or too short, so that a ship cannot spread the sail necessary to...

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• under metal

  The condition of a gun when the muzzle is depressed, and the metal, i.e. the breech, raised; the pro...

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• under sail

  The state of a ship when she is in motion from the action of wind on her sails. ...

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• under-set

  Wherever the wind impels the surface-water directly upon the shore of a bay, the water below restore...

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• under-skinker

  Assistant to the purser's steward. ...

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• under-tow

  An under current especially noticed at the mouths of great rivers, or where tide and half-tides prev...

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• under way

  A ship beginning to move under her canvas after her anchor is started. Some have written this under ...

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• Half-deck

  ·noun ·see Half deck, under <<Deck>>. II. Half-deck ·noun A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat sh...

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• Quarter-deck

  ·noun That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. ...

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• Turret deck

  ·add. ·- A narrow superstructure running from stem to stern on the upper deck of a steam cargo vesse...

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• Water deck

  ·- A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. ...

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• berth-deck

  The 'tween decks. ...

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• deck, to

  A word formerly in use for to trim, as "we deckt up our sails." ...

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• deck-beams

  See beams. ...

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• deck-cargo

  , otherwise deck-load (which see). ...

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• deck-cleats

  Pieces of wood temporarily nailed to the deck to secure objects in bad weather, as guns, deck-load, ...

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• deck-hook

  The compass timber bolted horizontally athwart a ship's bow, connecting the stem, timbers, and deck-...

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• deck-house

  An oblong-house on the deck of some merchantmen, especially east-country vessels, and latterly in pa...

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• deck-load

  Timber, casks, or other cargo not liable to damage from wet, stowed on the deck of merchant vessels....

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• deck-nails

  A kind of spike with a snug head, commonly made in a diamond form; they are single or double deck-na...

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• deck-pipe

  An iron pipe through which the chain cable is paid into the chain-locker. ...

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• deck-pumps

  In a steamer, are at the side of the vessel, worked with a lever by manual power, to supply addition...

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• deck-seam

  The interstices between the planks. ...

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• deck-sheet

  That sheet of a studding-sail which leads directly to the deck, by which it is steadied until set; i...

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• deck-stopper

  (See stopper of the cable.) A strong stopper used for securing the cable forward of the capstan or w...

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• deck-tackle

  A purchase led along the decks. ...

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• flush-deck

  A continued floor laid from the stem to the stern, upon one range, without any break. ...

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• forecastle-deck

  The fore-part of the upper deck at a vessel's bows. ...

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• fore-deck

  That part from the fore-mast to the bows. ...

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• grating-deck

  A light movable deck, similar to the hatch-deck, but with open gratings. ...

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• gun-deck

  See decks. ...

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• half-deck

  A space between the foremost bulk-head of the steerage and the fore-part of the quarter-deck. In the...

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• hatch-deck

  Gun brigs had hatches instead of lower decks. ...

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• hurricane-deck

  A light deck over the saloon of some steamers. ...

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• mess-deck

  The place where a ship's crew mess. ...

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• quarter-deck

  That part of the upper deck which is abaft the main-mast. (See decks, and jack's quarter-deck.) ...

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• spar-deck

  This term is loosely applied, though properly it signifies a temporary deck laid in any part of a ve...

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• upper deck

  The highest of those decks which are continued throughout the whole length of a ship without falls o...

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• half-topsails, under

  Said of a chase about 12 miles distant, the rest being below the horizon. ...

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• hand-under-hand

  Descending a rope by the converse of hand-over-hand ascent. ...

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• lee-gunwale under

  A colloquial phrase for being sorely over-pressed, by canvas or other cause. ...

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• prisoner under restraint

  Suspended from duty; deprived of command. ...

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• staggering under it

  A ship's labouring under as much canvas as she can bear. ...

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• stand from under!

  A notice given to those below to keep out of the way of anything being lowered down, or let fall fro...

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• stand right under!

  Jocularly, "Get out of the way." ...

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• under bare poles

  The condition of a ship under no canvas, or when the wind is too violent to allow of any sail being ...

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• under-shore, to

  To support or raise a thing by putting a spar or prop under it, as a ship is shored up in dock. ...

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• under the lee

  Sheltered from the wind by some intervening object, as a ship under the lee of the land. ...

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• under the sea

  A ship lying-to in a heavy gale, and making bad weather of it. ...

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• under the wind

  So situated to leeward of something as not to feel the wind. ...

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• deck-beam knees

  The same as lodging-knees. ...

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• deck standard-knees

  Iron knees having two tails, the one going on the bottom of a deck-beam, the other on the top of a h...

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• double deck-nails

  See deck-nails. ...

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• jack's quarter-deck

  The deck elevation forward in some vessels, often called a top-gallant forecastle. ...

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• on deck there!

  The cry to call attention from aloft or below. ...

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• quarter-deck nettings

  See netting. ...

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• quarter-deck officers

  A term implying the executive in general; officers whose places in action are there, in command. ...

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• (St.) Faith under St. Paul's

  A parish Church under the Quire of St. Paul's, at the west end of Jesus Chapel (S. 331). A crypt of...

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• haul under the chains

  This is a phrase signifying a ship's working and straining on the masts and shrouds, so as to make t...

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• let go under foot

  See under foot. ...

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• lie under arms, to

  To remain in a state of preparation for immediate action. ...

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• over and under turns

  Terms applied to the passing of an earing, besides its inner and outer turns. ...

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• under-run a warp, to

  To haul a boat along underneath it, in order to clear it, if any part happens to be foul. To under-r...

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• under-run a hawser or warp, to

  To haul a boat along underneath it, in order to clear it, if any part happens to be foul. To under-r...

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• mate of the lower-deck

  An officer of considerable importance in former times in ships of the line; he was responsible for t...

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• mate of the main-deck

  The officer appointed to superintend all the duties to be executed upon the main-deck during the day...

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• walk the quarter-deck, to

  A phrase signifying to take the rank of an officer. ...

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• lee-side of the quarter-deck

  Colloquially called the midshipman's parade. ...

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• running out, and running in, the lower deck guns

  The old practice of morning and evening evolutions in a line-of-battle ship, wind and weather permit...

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• born under a threepenny halfpenny planet, never to be worth a groat

  Said of any person remarkably unsuccessful in his attempts or profession. ...

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