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Three-decker

noun

Made with three slices of usually toasted bread. Synonyms: club sandwich, triple-decker.

Any ship having three decks.

A warship carrying guns on three decks.

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"Three-decker" Quotes from Famous Books

... "I only wish we had the man that planned her on board, that we might keel-haul him. I've sailed in a'most every kind of craft that floats—from a Chinese junk to a British three-decker, and between the two extremes there's a pretty extensive choice of washin'-tubs, but the equal o' this here Buss I never did see—no never; take another haul on the foretops'l halyards, boys, and shut your ...

— The Story of the Rock • R.M. Ballantyne

... intricate conceptions; humbug and gammon and wishy-washy hair-splittings without end; and hullo! why here's avarice, and self-indulgence, and impudence! luxury, effeminacy and peevishness!—Yes, I see them all; you need not try to hide them. Away with falsehood and swagger and superciliousness; why, the three-decker is not built that would hold you with all ...

— Works, V1 • Lucian of Samosata

... captain, 'every lad like you, my lad, trained in the big ship, and he wouldn't capsize, and be found betrayed by his light timbers as I found you. Serve your apprenticeship in the Lord's three-decker; then to command what ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... were mostly of the same form in structure and service as at the conclusion of the Civil War. The old oak pews were still in use, as were the galleries and the old "three-decker" pulpits, with sounding-boards overhead. The parish clerk occupied the lower deck and gave out the hymns therefrom, as well as other notices of a character not now announced in church. The minister read the lessons and prayers, ...

— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor

Words linked to "Three-decker" : combat ship, war vessel, warship, sandwich, ship