quarterdeck
IPA: kwˈɔrtɝdɛk
noun
- (nautical) The aft part of the upper deck of a ship; normally reserved for officers
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Examples of "quarterdeck" in Sentences
- A second gyro repeater is fitted on the quarterdeck.
- There is no raised forecastle or lowered quarterdeck.
- Spencer was arrested and put in irons on the quarterdeck.
- These words are engraved on a plaque on the ship's quarterdeck.
- A Limbo anti submarine mortar was located on the aft quarterdeck.
- Both Cromwell and Small joined Spencer in irons on the quarterdeck.
- It might be the quarterdeck on board ship or a tent in the field. 5.
- The quarterdeck is the residence and symbol of authority in a warship.
- During combat, he was stationed on the quarterdeck, next to the captain.
- He glanced at the quarterdeck of the Mirenda—and there was Jaspar Mendoza.
- An enclosed pilothouse was built around the exhaust funnel on the quarterdeck.
- The pirate captain suddenly thrust a heavy laptop at the quiet figure on the quarterdeck.
- While younger men floundered, he had made his way up to a crag as briskly as he might have walked the quarterdeck.
- As for Captain Markham, I must admit that I sometimes adopt this very pose when viewing the world from my own quarterdeck.
- The anchor was broken out to a song of farewell from Lilolilo's singing boys on the quarterdeck, while we, in the big canoes and whaleboats, saw the first breeze fill the vessel's sails and the distance begin to widen.
- While we were engaged on the wall, a few fire-arrows had come over and been promptly stifled by the invalids, who were in tremendous trim, bawling orders to each other and striding about like Nelson on the quarterdeck.
- He stood on the section of the deck behind the gangway, in that ill-defined area that was called the quarterdeck, along with the others going on shore leave, sunlight and shadows from the masts and rigging falling across them.
- As Burns scampered up the narrow stairs to the quarterdeck, the gunfire abruptly ended: Either Smith had run out of ammunition or she had heaved herself through the hole, and Smith, like Wilson, was a denizen of the living world no more.
- I think about Ahab on his ship, pacing the quarterdeck, possessed by and obsessed with the white whale; I think of Ishmael, in chapter forty-one, the white whale lurking in the depths, as he attempts to understand his complicated captain and his quest.