tween-decks

At the moment we arrived forward, five Chinese, like so many bees, came swarming out of the little 'tween-decks cabin, the sleep still in their eyes.

YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF 2010

In the tight hot dark of the 'tween-decks crawlway, three shadowy forms lay one behind the other, holding very still.

My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000

In the tight hot dark of the 'tween-decks crawlway, three shadowy forms lay one behind the other, holding very still.

My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000

In the tight hot dark of the 'tween-decks crawlway, three shadowy forms lay one behind the other, holding very still.

My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000

Yet if Sharpe were to go down to the hold now and wake up the soldiers who slept so fitfully and uncomfortably in the stinking 'tween-decks of the Amelie, and if he were to ask each man what he wanted in life, then he knew, besides being thought mad by the men, that he would not hear the word Liberty used.

Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

And in the cold, dark 'tween-decks he coached her in what he thought would be their last prayer.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

The music ceased, the dancers deserted the 'tween-decks floor, and, as the rocking of the boat increased, there arose in the direction of the ladies' cabin audible suggestions of woe.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

And by this action was resolved for me a riddle with regard to the properties and uses of a prematurely stout man of fabulous girth, who had been dimly revealed to me, once or twice in the course of the voyage, through some long vista of the 'tween-decks, but seemed always to melt into air, -- or, more probably, oil, -- upon any advance being made to a closer inspection.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

It was a dark 'tween-decks cabin, and the stench, as we descended, was simply horrible!

All Aboard A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry

I was certainly at a loss, and put to my shifts, to render a reason; but, upon investigating the matter further, I found that, during the gale, the chimney of the cook's apartment in the _'tween-decks_ was rendered inefficient, whereby the sleeping-berths were constantly filled with smoke.

An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar