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deckhouse

[dek-haus] / ˈdɛkˌhaʊs /


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Unlike its sister ships, the Zumwalt and the Monsoor, the LBJ will have a deckhouse that’s made of steel, not composite materials, to save money.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2019

The dining area in the deckhouse has panoramic views and there is plenty of cockpit space for lounging.

From Time Magazine Archive

Up in the deckhouse, the skipper and navigator have wonderful, 360-degree views out large windows on all four sides.

From Time Magazine Archive

The deckhouse, painted Porsche silver, ends at the mast, leaving a wide foredeck dotted with flush-mounted hatches and bordered by reassuringly high lifelines forward.

From Time Magazine Archive

Trent threw a glance right and left; broke into a run, his bare feet padding on the damp planks; paused at the corner of the deckhouse.

From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey

Out in the stream, a small steamer with a black funnel and a row of white deckhouses moved seawards with the tide.

From Wyndham's Pal by Harold Bindloss

The sticks were jerked out of her, deckhouses splintered to match-wood, rails ripped off, and, after the worst had passed, the covering boards began to go. 

From The Red One by Jack London

Between two of the deckhouses on the lower deck of this steamer is a narrow passage.

From A Padre in France by George A. Birmingham

The night air, however, and the weird eloquence of the utter solitude, the disordered deck, the great towering funnel, the ruined deckhouses, the serpentine lapping of the water, roused Mona from her semi-lethargy.

From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford

Miller's men were building horse stalls, caulking the decks, resecuring the deckhouses, putting in bolts and various small fittings.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott


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