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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

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

The sea streamed down her weather side, which rose up like a wall, and Frank could see her wheel behind the low deckhouse jerking to and fro.

From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 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

These, as well as the end of the ship's navigating bridge and the gangway, were illuminated by, he imagined, a lamp on the side of one of the deckhouses.

From The Pit Prop Syndicate by Freeman Wills Crofts

A hundred times the crash of the wave on the ship's side was followed by the roar of the water, as it swept the decks and raved round the deckhouses.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

His eyes were half closed, for the white boats and deckhouses flashed dazzlingly in the strong light as the steamer lurched across the vivid swell of the Caribbean.

From Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss

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


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