Suppose you'd buried her nose in the mud and we'd had to lighter her deckload to get her off," Mr. Skinner suggested.
It was the ship's cat coming across the deckload toward him, in his yellow eyes a singularly pleased expression and in his mouth a singularly large rat.
I saw the sun set red through the thin blue smoke of the fire, and almost in line with the sun and the smoke was the stranded bark with her deckload of lumber.
At this juncture, Mr. Gibney and McGuffey, unable to restrain their curiosity, and forgetful of the fact that they were pirates with very sore feet, came running over the deckload and invaded the pilot house.
In order to get at the small boat, therefore, it would be necessary to shift this load off the house, and the question that now confronted Scraggs and his crew was to find a spot that would accommodate the part of the deckload thus shifted!
Without further ado, Mr. McGuffey started across the deckload to the fo'castle head.
And watch out for that deckload or some of you'll have a head cut off.
The two walked forward over the deckload and sat on the fore-gaff, which sprawled carelessly where it had fallen when the halyards were let run.
A crashing curler took advantage of the loosened deckload and smashed the schooner a longside buffet which sent all the lumber in a sliding drive against the lee rail and rigging.
Mayo saw that it was a long strip of scantling, undoubtedly from thedeckload that the Polly had jettisoned when she was tripped.
He'll be heaving that wholedeckload of shingles at 'em next!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deckload" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
