Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a deep waist, as a ship when the quarter-deck and forecastle are raised higher than usual above the level of the spar-deck.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Naut.) Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the deck.

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Examples

  • So the deep-waisted smacks that fish for many generations, and even the famous “London trader”

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Persians_ the Chorus salutes Atossa in terms every one of which emphasizes this point: "O queen, supreme of Persia's deep-waisted matrons, aged mother of Xerxes, hail to thee! spouse to Darius, consort of the Persians, god and mother of a god thou art," while

    Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

  • So the deep-waisted smacks that fish for many generations, and even the famous "London trader" (a schooner of five-and-forty tons), have rest from their labors, whenever they wish or whenever they can afford it, in the arms of the land, and the mouth of the water, and under the eyes of

    Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War 1862

  • This was no other than our great traveller, the monkey, rigged out as a marine, and planted like a sentry on the middle step of the short ladder, which, in deep-waisted vessels, is placed at the gangway, and reaches from the deck to the top of the bulwark.

    The Lieutenant and Commander Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 1862

  • When the after-part of the deck is raised they are known as being deep-waisted, as is the case with many merchantmen.

    How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Ships thus built are spoken of as deep-waisted, because the centre part is deeper or lower than the after-part.

    How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • She was a deep-waisted vessel, with three masts, the foremast and mainmast square-rigged, while the aftermast carried a long lateen-shaped sail called the mizen, with a square topsail and topgallantsail.

    The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • "That's her, I've a notion," he said at length, pointing to a deep-waisted craft with a raised poop and forecastle, and with much greater beam than our own wall-sided merchantmen.

    Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • She was deep-waisted, with a high poop, and topgallant forecastle, from beneath each of which two guns were so placed that should boarders gain the deck, they would be quickly shot down.

    Roger Willoughby A Story of the Times of Benbow William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • In that age such craft were very common, sloops of war having that construction quite as often as that of the more modern deep-waisted vessel.

    The Crater James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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