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Housing :: Housing (n.) A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up..

Break :: Break (v. t.) An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship..

Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard..

Rudderhole :: Rudderhole (n.) The hole in the deck through which the rudderpost passes.

Companion :: Companion (n.) A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck..

Scuttle :: Scuttle (v. t.) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose..

Water Deck :: Water deck () A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse.

Well :: Well (v. i.) A depressed space in the after part of the deck; -- often called the cockpit.

Poop :: Poop (n.) A deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost or after part of a vessel's hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck. See Poop deck, under Deck. See also Roundhouse..

Hatchway :: Hatchway (n.) A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar..

Caboose :: Caboose (n.) A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley..

Nettles :: Nettles (n. pl.) Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.

Abovedeck :: Abovedeck (a.) On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice..

Adight :: Adight (v. t.) To set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress..

Roustabout :: Roustabout (n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs..

Foredeck :: Foredeck (n.) The fore part of a deck, or of a ship..

Waist :: Waist (n.) Hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially (Naut.), that part of a vessel's deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter-deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship..

Ledge :: Ledge (n.) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams..

Boat Shell :: Boat shell () A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck.

Undecked :: Undecked (a.) Not having a deck; as, an undecked vessel..

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