单词 | double-decked |
释义 | double-deckedadj. Having two decks, tiers, or floors, one above the other.In earliest use applied to ships. ΚΠ 1620 Act Common Council City of London (London Metropolitan Archives: COL/CC/01/01/032) f. 234v That the owner or marchant or lader of any..double decked shippes..shall pay to the said Porters for euery quarter of corne, beanes..a halfe penny a quarter. 1730 R. Bundy tr. F. Catrou & P.-J. Rouillé Rom. Hist. IV. xxxvii. 37 Their Fleet..was augmented with twenty Rhodian Ships, all double-decked. 1870 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1867–8 7 460 Sheep arrive here from the west in single decked cars, but leave in double decked ones. 1903 A. H. Beavan Tube, Train, Tram, & Car xv. 212 Electric omnibuses..double-decked. 1956 A. J. Wallis & C. F. Blair Thunder Above (1959) i. 6 The huge double-decked airliner. 2014 Salina (Kansas) Jrnl. 29 June c6/6 Fans were told to evacuate the stands and head toward the concourse of the double-decked stadium. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). > as lemmasdouble-decked double-decked adj. < adj.1620 as lemmas |
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