Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a flush deck: as, a flush-decked steamer. See
deck , 2.
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Examples
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Captain Samuels, heavy and tall, stood at the white line which marked off the quarterdeck from the rest of the flush-decked frigate.
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About a hundred and thirty feet I made her, a long lean hull like an ancestral clipper ship, sleekly flush-decked except for a small poop and wheelhouse, and a larger hatchway which must cover the hold - easily big enough to take a container.
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Pretty Jane was a flush-decked brig, save that amidships she carried a small but substantial deckhouse for her passengers.
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Racked into a flush-decked recess on one side of the hull was a crane arm with a two-hundred-ton lift capacity.
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_Savannah_ shows a ship-rigged, flush-decked vessel with a small deckhouse forward of the mainmast and nearly abreast of the side paddle wheels.
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The galliasse was sometimes flush-decked, without poop and forecastle, and sometimes built with both, but she was never so "high charged" as the galleon.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
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She was flush-decked, and sat high in the water, with a freeboard of nearly five feet.
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An English navy list of 1545 shows four clumsy old-fashioned "great-ships" of upwards of 1000 tons, but second to these a dozen newer vessels of distinctly galleon lines, lower than the great-ships, flush-decked, and sail-driven.
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There were six feet of head-room below, and she was crown-decked and flush-decked.
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There were six feet of head-room below, and she was crown-decked and flush-decked.
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