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Camber :: Camber (n.) An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck)..

Guard :: Guard (v. t.) A fence or rail to prevent falling from the deck of a vessel.

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

Deck :: Deck (v.) The roof of a passenger car.

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..

Forecastle :: Forecastle (n.) In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel, under the deck, where the sailors live..

Razee :: Razee (v. t.) An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate..

Double-decker :: Double-decker (n.) A public conveyance, as a street car, with seats on the roof..

Two-decker :: Two-decker (n.) A vessel of war carrying guns on two decks.

Wherry :: Wherry (n.) A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing..

Wale :: Wale (n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc..

Spurred :: Spur (n.) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed.

Barge :: Barge (n.) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat..

Flounce :: Flounce (v. t.) To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock..

Hold :: Hold (n.) The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed..

Gangway :: Gangway (v. i.) That part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist..

Befrill :: Befrill (v. t.) To furnish or deck with a frill.

Murderer :: Murderer (n.) A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece..

Guard :: Guard (v. t.) An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; esp., in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves out on each side beyond the paddle wheel, and protects it and the shaft against collision..

Jewel :: "Jewel (v. t.) To dress, adorn, deck, or supply with jewels, as a dress, a sword hilt, or a watch; to bespangle, as with jewels..

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