单词 | spar-deck |
释义 | spar-deckn. A light upper deck in a vessel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > upper deck > light upper deck spar-deck1570 hurricane-deck1833 hurricane roof1839 α. attributive.1893 Naut. Mag. May 396 The spar-deck ship is of character intermediate between the awning-deck ship and the three-deck ship.β. a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) ii. 253/2 To have all the spare Decks and other Things of weight taken down.1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Spare-Deck or Sparr-deck, the uppermost Deck in some great Ships, which lies between the Main and Missen Masts.1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iii. f. 40v Hir fraught was onely Friers and Monkes, and on the spardeckes hie, Were all the chiefest members of the wicked papacie. 1599 T. Dallam Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) i. 9 Than the booteson of our ship stod upon our spar decke,..commanding them to come under our Lee side. a1618 W. Raleigh Disc. Invention Shipping 29 in Judicious & Select Ess. (1650) Needing no other addition of building, then a slight spar Decke, fore and afte as the Seamen call it. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xiv. 35/1 The spar deck, which is the vpermost, betwixt the two masts and is made very slight. 1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War ii. 68 He must take some of the open Sloops, and make Spar-Decks to them. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Decks Frigates, sloops, &c. with one gun-deck and a half, with a spar deck below to lodge the crew. 1847 H. Melville Omoo xxix On the spar-deck, also, are carronades of enormous calibre. 1887 J. Ball Notes Naturalist in S. Amer. 31 A spar-deck carried flush from stem to stern. Derivatives spar-decked adj. fitted with a spar-deck. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [adjective] > having deck(s) > having specific type of decks or superstructure race-built1622 flush1800 pooped1849 spar-decked1877 well-decked1880 turtle-backed1889 whaleback1891 shade-decked1902 1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. i. 9 The ‘Challenger’, a spar-decked corvette. 1885 A. Brassey In Trades 19 The ‘Norham Castle’ is a spar-decked ship. spar-decker n. a spar-decked vessel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [noun] > having specific number or type of decks forestage ship?1345 three-decker1789 two-decker1834 half-decker1872 well-decker1882 spar-decker1893 flush-decker1937 1893 Naut. Mag. May 397 No allowance should be made for deck erections in a spar-decker. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1570 |
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