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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See deck, 2 .

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Examples

  • A steward -- the one to whom Professor Deeping had spoken -- lay writhing at the foot of the stairs leading to the saloon-deck.

    The Quest of the Sacred Slipper Sax Rohmer 1921

  • Lighting a cigarette, he ran his eye along the saloon-deck.

    Brandon of the Engineers Harold Bindloss 1905

  • There was, however, no suspicious movement on the saloon-deck, and Jake, walking to the rail, saw the peons putting the last of the barge's cargo into the sling.

    Brandon of the Engineers Harold Bindloss 1905

  • We were to pick up the Eddystone; and as this was calculated to happen at sunset, or a little after, the usual sweepstake on the saloon-deck aroused a little more than the usual excitement.

    The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Our collector, brave by fits in his dignity as steward, would catch the eye of a saloon-deck passenger and shrink behind the enormous rosette which some wag had pinned upon him.

    The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Once, and once only -- it was the second day out from Madeira -- the third-class passengers did "occur," to the extent of organising athletic sports, and even (with the captain's leave) of levying prize-money from the saloon-deck.

    The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • O'Connell went aboard with her, and an odd couple they looked on the saloon-deck, with Peg holding on to "Michael" -- much to the amusement of the passengers, the visitors and the stewards.

    Peg O' My Heart J. Hartley Manners 1899

  • Mr. Buffum, the Hutchinsons, and other passengers visited him often and invited him not only to their cabin, but to the saloon-deck.

    Frederick Douglass The Colored Orator. 1895

  • Belmont, his square figure balanced upon a small white donkey, was waving his hat to his wife, who had come out upon the saloon-deck of the _Korosko_.

    A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Together they went over it carefully, and by dint of much memory-wringing Maurice was able to give the detective leave to cancel ten of the seventeen names in the women's list, the remaining seven including all the might-have-beens who could possibly be fitted into the clerk's recollection of the woman he had seen clinging to the saloon-deck stanchion after her interview with the deck-hand.

    The Price Francis Lynde 1893

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