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Main deck   /meɪn dɛk/   Listen
Main deck

noun
1.
The uppermost sheltered deck that runs the entire length of a large vessel.  Synonym: second deck.






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"Main deck" Quotes from Famous Books



... will go down and——" and Jack started to go to the main deck and speak quietly to the boy. But before he had hardly said the words there was a sudden startled cry and Jack, looking down quickly, saw that the very thing he had feared ...
— The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island • Cyril Burleigh

... swilling the decks, she had seen him dancing a jig, she had seen him going round the main deck on all fours with Dick on his back, but she had never seen him going on like ...
— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... cabin was up on the main deck, and it was the scene of much going and coming, and signing and handing back and forth of papers. A young man sat on a stool before a high desk with a huge open book ...
— Tom Slade with the Colors • Percy K. Fitzhugh

... on the main deck and there found a great number of passengers, all in a state of excitement. A few were on the point of leaping overboard, thinking the ship was going to sink. But the officers were cool and collected, and did all in ...
— Dave Porter in the Far North - or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy • Edward Stratemeyer

... a small and fussy tugboat steamed around our stern and drew alongside the gangway. Three passengers disembarked from her and made their way aboard. The main deck of the craft under an awning was heavily encumbered with trunks, tin boxes, hand baggage, tin bath-tubs, gun cases, and all sorts of impedimenta. The tugboat moored itself to us fore and aft, and proceeded to think about discharging. Perhaps twenty men in accurate replica of those ...
— African Camp Fires • Stewart Edward White


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