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Half-deck   Listen
noun
Half-deck  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat shell. See Boat shell.
2.
See Half deck, under Deck.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Half-deck" Quotes from Famous Books



... black-bearded man, it appeared, was the captain of the ill-fated Dona Catalina, and he introduced himself as simply Captain Robledo Martinez, without the pretentious prefix of "Don" or anything else. Him, George took under his own wing, ordering a cot to be slung for him down on the half-deck, with a screen of canvas triced up round it to insure privacy. The poor fellow, like all the rest of the rescued Spaniards, had, of course, only the clothes that he stood up in, and they were dripping wet; but, ...
— The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer • Harry Collingwood



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