Definitions for half-deck

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half-deck half deck

Half-Deck is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 229 anagrams from letters in half-deck (-acdefhkl).

Definitions for half-deck

noun

1. (in a sailing ship) the portion of the deck below the upper or spar deck and aft of the mainmast.

Origin of half-deck

First recorded in 1620-30

Examples for half-deck

We fall in according to our terms and march round to the half deck, the fourth term leading, the others following in order.

We then arranged to eat with the mate and another passenger above on the half deck.

Now they were come to the prow, and there was a half deck under which they were set, out of reach of the wind and water.

Now aft, near the tiller, a small boat was bound on the half deck of the Raven.

My own clothes—the clothes which I had worn when I scrambled down the fox's earth—were forward, under the half deck.