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- adj. a storm shutter fitted to the outside of the quarter-gallery door.
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chained_bear commented on the word dead door
"Dead doors, in shipbuilding, are those fitted to the outside of the quarter-gallery-doors, in case the quarter-gallery should be carried away."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 117
October 14, 2008