0 past simple and past participle of deck
1 to decorate or add something to something to make an effect:
2 to hit someone, especially to hit someone and knock them down:
Do that again and I'll deck you.
The hideously decked ' tigers ' and gaudily attired women, alike, become insane.
They bought smart new terrace houses and decked them out with clocks, curtains, mirrors, paintings and easy chairs.
It was a silver tower decked with ivory shields.
Simply propaganda, the ancient literature of comment moves at the intellectual level of a modern washing-powder advertisment, albeit one decked out with convoluted calculations.
Elaborate early costumes, decked with ribbons, plumes, and gold braid, announced the female rider's royal status and her right to take part in the rituals of the hunt.
As a 'solution' to a 'problem', it manifestly fails: but it is memorable and popular, not least as a place for receptions, incongruously decked out by commercial caterers.
If we put aside the open raft as against the decked lifeboat the only other alternative is what is called the collapsible boat.
We thus come back to the lifeboat and the decked lifeboat as the only really effective life-saving apparatus.
