A significant word derived from the animal; it implies that the two ends of a ship's decks droop lower than the midship part, consequently, that her keel and bottom are so strained as to curve upwards.
The guns on these several decks increase in size and number from the poop downwards.
A small tackle consisting of a double and a single block, and used by seamen on sundry occasions about the decks or aloft.
Also, in a confined sense, to that part on each side of the stem outside the bows proper which is appropriated to the use of the sailors for wringing swabs, or any wet jobs, for no wet is permitted in-board after the decks are dried.
Indeed the word is applied to any division made with boards, to separate one portion of the 'tween decks from another.
The longitudinal curve of a ship's decks or sides; the hanging of the vessel's side in a fore-and-aft direction.
It is used to scrape the ship's side or decks after caulking, or to clean the top-masts, &c.
The portion of the 'tween-decks just before the gun-room bulk-head.
In a ship-of-war, used for washing decks (one of the midship pumps).
The seas had come up, over 'n' over that steamer, ontil the decks were one straight glare of ice.
The decks of the cutter seemed to bristle with men, as when Jason sowed the dragon's teeth.
Rodrigues himself did direct these pieces, so bending down their mouths that the shot should go through the decks to beat out the side below water.
For some time all was quiet above, but about noon, as I judge, I heard a great bustle on the decks of pulling ropes and the like, and this continued all day until the evening, when the anchors were drawn up and the ship made sail.
In the structure of the hull and decks enormous strength has been given, with special protection at vital parts, as the vessel is built in compliance with the Admiralty requirements for armed cruisers.
The decks and railings of the steamer, still wet from the clinging mist, shone and gleamed and sparkled in the sun like one gigantic diamond.
The raucous shouts and cries of sailors and watermen came to their ears, with now and then a snatch of song from the decks of some tall, four-masted freighter.
The horses which were visible on the decks of the transports struck the barbarians who saw them with such surprise that those of them who were present at the starting of the fleet accompanied it a long way from the place of embarkation.
Therefore thedecks were crowded on the ninth morning of the voyage when the shores of Ireland were sighted.
On the contrary the decks are washed with hose, and scrubbed afterward by a patent appliance, which has nothing of the old time about it.
With what a thrill, then, one stands upon the very deck upon which he trod during one the most brilliant sea fights in the annals of history, to go upon the gun decks where he commanded his gallant sailors.
She is fifty-eight feet from the main deck to the hold, though she seems, with her four decks above the water line, to be even higher than that.
Weird looks the ruined church, where ivy creeping Decks the old walls fast mouldering in decay; And peace rests o'er the graves in whose calm keeping, In quiet safety, sleeps the treasured clay.
I don’t like to feel that people obey me just because they are afraid of me, and to go stalking round the decks like some of those giants we read of in the old story books.
Tom did not at that time get an answer to his question, for just as he spoke the order was given to beat to quarters for exercise, and in a few minutes the decks were cleared, and every man at his post.
The ship's two masts and steep bowsprit had been broken off, and the decks were a litter of weeds, and shells, and sand.
We'll be on the safe side," went on Matt, "and just swing along with the water over our decks and the top of the conning tower.
Camba, the historian, who was present, says that his European soldiers gazed in astonishment upon the decks of these three small vessels as they sailed through the Spanish fleet.
Then came the long line of transports, theirdecks crowded with troops in all the varied uniforms of the Liberating Army, including those of the division left behind under Arenales.
Was a warning given to the lower decks after the ship had been struck?
The tows were cast off by the battleships and the ladders taken in and the decks cleared for action, the crews going to general quarters.
The troops gathered on the upper decks and sang the "Marseillaise" as the great hull settled in the water.
As Sanitary Officer for the day I had to go over the whole of the horse deckswith the Military Officer of the ship, Lt.
The decks have been swept by the waves all day, and the awnings blown down more than once.
Then came a French warship on our port side, coaling at its hardest, from which came shouts to our decks crowded with troops of "where are you going"?
We too had a right royal send-off from all the warships we passed, their decks being packed with cheering multitudes, and our French friends of the morning played the National Anthem again in the usual silence.
At that moment the tall Bugi who had been their sponsor approached them and made signs to indicate that they must return to the box between decks from which he had rescued them.
He found his associate pacing agitatedly in the shade of a screen of nipa palms between whose broad leaves he could watch the trim white hull and spotless decks of the gun-boat.
Huge ferryboats passed slowly up and down, their tiers of decks crowded with sightseers.
The decks were dry and comfortable, and the ship had a habitable and civilized look, by reason of the row of clothes hung by the seamen to dry on the forecastle.
At first, the spectators on the decks of the Caroline believed they were not seen, and some of the men called madly for lights, in order that the disasters of the night might not terminate in an encounter.
The water washed sullenly along the side of the ship, or, as she labouring rose from one of her frequent falls into the hollows of the waves, it shot back into the ocean from her decksin glittering cascades.
There were even incisions and fractures in the masts, that stood like pillars grounded firmly in the keel, and piercing the several decks of the vessel.
By this time the decks of the Everett were crowded with the khaki-clad soldiers of Uncle Sam whom the Germans were trying to prevent from getting into the trenches by sending them to the bottom of the Atlantic.
Big cranes, operated by powerful winches on the vessel and on shore, were hoisting cases of various sizes and shapes upon the lower decks and into the hold.
We were now so close to her that we could see that her decks seemed to be full of men, and I thought I heard a shriek as our shot struck.
When she first engaged us her decks had appeared to be crowded with men, but now most of them were either killed or wounded, and the few who had escaped seemed to have flung themselves down exhausted, for they had all disappeared.
Of the clergy and friars who ministered on the Spanish decks to the wounded and dying, although some of them were struck, not one was killed.
The children found each other out like dogs, and ran about the decks scraping acquaintance after their fashion also.
I was taken for a steerage passenger; no one seemed surprised that I should be so; and there was nothing but the brass plate between decks to remind me that I had once been a gentleman.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
