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spar-deck
Also 6, 8 sparr-, 7–8 spare-deck.
[f. spar n.1 Hence G. and F. spardeck.]
A light upper deck in a vessel.
α1570Googe Pop. Kingd. iii. 40 b, Hir fraught was only Friers and Monkes, and on the spardeckes hie Were all the chiefest members of the wicked papacie. 1599Dallam in Early Voy. Levant (Hakl. Soc.) 9 Than the booteson of our ship stod upon our spar decke,..commanding them to come under our Lee side. a1618Raleigh Invent. Shipping 29 Needing no other addition of building, then a slight spar Decke, fore and afte as the Seamen call it. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xiv. (Roxb.) 35/1 The spar deck, which is the vpermost, betwixt the two masts and is made very slight. 1716B. Church Hist. Philip's War (1867) II. 42 He must take some of the open Sloops, and make Spar-Decks to them. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) s.v. Decks, Frigates, sloops, &c. with one gun-deck and a half, with a spar deck below to lodge the crew. 1847H. Melville Omoo xxix, On the spar-deck, also, are carronades of enormous calibre. 1887J. Ball Nat. S. Amer. 31 A spar-deck carried flush from stem to stern.
attrib.1893Naut. Mag. May 396 The spar-deck ship is of character intermediate between the awning-deck ship and the three-deck ship.
βa1642Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts ii. (1704) 253/2 To have all the spare Decks and other Things of weight taken down. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Spare-Deck or Sparr-deck, the uppermost Deck in some great Ships, which lies between the Main and Missen Masts.
Hence spar-decked a., fitted with a spar-deck; spar-decker, a spar-decked vessel.
1877Sir C. W. Thomson Voy. Challenger I. i. 9 The ‘Challenger’, a spar-decked corvette. 1885A. Brassey The Trades 19 The ‘Norham Castle’ is a spar-decked ship. 1893Naut. Mag. May 397 No allowance should be made for deck erections in a spar-decker. |