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  • noun Plural form of deck.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deck.

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Examples

  • On a table against the short wall was her apparatus -- if that's what you call decks of cards, a roulette wheel, a set of Rhine ESP cards, several dice and, so help me, a crystal ball.

    Card Trick Randall Garrett 1957

  • And before morning the Mary Rogers was hove down twice again, and holes were knocked in her bulwarks to ease her decks from the weight of ocean that pressed her down.

    MAKE WESTING 2010

  • The single fills 50 square meters of interior living space, with about the same area found in decks around the dwelling.

    PREFAB FRIDAY: iPAD by Andre Hodgskin | Inhabitat 2008

  • I have a functioning 1982 Sony Betamax Handicam and a betamax player with twin decks for recording!!!

    KILL ME NOW 2008

  • So rather than going back to the league with a rebuilt version to see what other, alternative decks from the same card pool might win, I have been consistently playing this Godawful losing deck all weekend.

    My Amazing Birthday Deck 2006

  • I enjoy constructing decks from the cards we have.

    notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • I enjoy constructing decks from the cards we have.

    Archive 2003-06-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • And before morning the Mary Rogers was hove down twice again, and holes were knocked in her bulwarks to ease her decks from the weight of ocean that pressed her down.

    Make Westing 1911

  • And before morning the Mary Rogers was hove down twice again, and holes were knocked in her bulwarks to ease her decks from the weight of the ocean that pressed her down.

    Make Westing 1909

  • At that period the Spanish war-vessels were built with "flush" decks, that is, their decks were level fore and aft, and without bulwarks, and were of much greater length than the English vessels, which were short, and therefore more easy to manoeuvre than the Spaniards.

    Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess Harry Collingwood 1886

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