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deckhouse

[dek-hous] / 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 boat deck provides shelter for walking the wide side decks on both sides of the deckhouse, as well as for relaxing or dining in the aft cockpit.

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

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

After a while Grahame called Miguel to the helm and stood in the lee of the deckhouse, pipe in mouth, for he had now time to think.

From The Coast of Adventure by Harold Bindloss

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

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

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

Her great bow seemed to be rising out of the water like a headland, over which Frank could just see the tiers of white deckhouses, one mast, and the tall smokestack.

From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss

In a twinkling up went the battle flag, bulwarks fell down, lifeboats on decks collapsed, revealing guns, sides dropped from deckhouses, hen-coops, and other innocent-looking structures.

From The Victory At Sea by Burton J. Hendrick




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