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

Prink :: Prink (v. t.) To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically.

Platform :: Platform (n.) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine. See Orlop..

Frigate :: Frigate (n.) Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely incre

Decker :: Decker (n.) One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a table decker..

Coamings :: Coamings (n. pl.) Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges..

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

Half-deck :: Half-deck (n.) A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat shell. See Boat shell.

Decorate :: Decorate (v. t.) To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors..

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

Dink :: Dink (v. t.) To deck; -- often with out or up.

Laureate :: Laureate (a.) Crowned, or decked, with laurel..

Invest :: Invest (v. t.) To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or glory; to invest with an estate..

Rider :: Rider (n.) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame..

Hounding :: Hounding (n.) The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck.

Breastrail :: Breastrail (n.) The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc..

Daub :: Daub (v. t.) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.

Three-decker :: Three-decker (n.) A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.

Squill :: Squilgee (n.) Formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, -- used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc..

Scraper :: Scraper (n.) An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship..

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