orlop
IPA: ˈɔrɫɔp
noun
- (nautical) The platform over the hold of a ship that makes up the fourth or lowest deck, hence in full called orlop deck, especially of a warship.
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Examples of "orlop" in Sentences
- Orlop deck The lowest deck of a ship of the line.
- The screaming was coming from up on the orlop deck.
- Right above the hold was the orlop, the lowest deck.
- Right above the hold was the orlop , the lowest deck.
- Right above the hold was the 'orlop', the lowest deck.
- Below this again is one still lower-deck called the orlop-deck.
- The orlop is the lowest deck in a ship except for very old ships .
- The lanterns were already disappearing up the ladderway to the orlop deck.
- "Battered chain-gangs of the orlop, grizzled draughts of years gone by ..."
- Crozier realized that Puhtoorak's young hunters had hacked their way in to the orlop deck.
- As far as they could tell without lighting lamps and going down into the hold and orlop deck, this was the only dead body on board.
- Crozier wanted to stay in the open air, even with the afternoon light waning, but he made himself go below to the orlop deck again.
- The "orlop" or eighth deck is devoted entirely to machinery with coal bunkers on each side of the boilers to provide against the effect of collisions.
- Knowing that the orlop deck fire alone would have been enough — these timbers were dried to tinder after six years in this arctic desert — he still took time to light the lines of powder on the lower deck and open upper deck.
- Then the Four of us — aided by crewmen assigned to help us move the hundreds upon hundreds of crates, barrels, and heavy cans in both lower decks, orlop decks, and holds, and to open and test selected samplings — had done the Inventory twice so as not to make a mistake.
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