quarterdeck Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˈkwɔː.tə.dek]
  • Us [ ˈkwɔːr.t̬ɚ.dek]

Meaning of quarterdeck In English

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Examples of quarterdeck

  • She had outside cabins on both sides of the quarterdeck.

  • Instead, we have been treated to nothing more than an electioneering striptease on the quarterdeck.

  • Gone was all that bluff quarterdeck manner with which we have become so familiar.

  • Some of us know the old style of what we should call the blue-water admirals, with their quarterdeck manner, who would listen to no one.

  • I can imagine what would happen if certain people here had got heaved off the quarterdeck.

  • The reference in both cases is to seamen—men who go to sea; and there is no distinction in that word between the lower deck and the quarterdeck.

  • One mount was on each side of the lower flight deck and a pair were on the quarterdeck.

  • Four depth charge throwers and two rails are installed on the quarterdeck.

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