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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

Four or more people can enjoy the views from the deckhouse on two long settees and a pair of captain's chairs.

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

But I was comfortable in the extreme on the wide, leather-covered helm seat, protected from the winds and surrounded on all sides by a glass-enclosed deckhouse.

From Time Magazine Archive

He led Jimmy into a handsome teak deckhouse between the masts, and opened a door into the owner’s cabin, which occupied the full width of the house.

From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss

The colleagues made their way along the deck, stopping in the shadow of the deckhouses to listen if there was any sound.

From Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne

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

One of our crew groaned, but no other man uttered a sound, and we returned to the shelter of the deckhouses.

From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor

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

The black paint was scarred and peeling higher up, the white deckhouses and boats had grown dingy, and there was about her a poverty-stricken look.

From The Coast of Adventure by Harold Bindloss


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