below decks

prepositional phrase

In or into any of the spaces below the main deck of a vessel.

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. nauticalIn or into any of the spaces below the main deck of a vessel.

    [O]n the wind shifting and becoming more violent, the landsmen soon retired below decks.

    1817, Maria Edgeworth, chapter 31, in Ormond
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    Phaidor and I were taken below decks, where, still fast bound, we were thrown into a small compartment which contained a single port-hole.

    1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Under Arrest”, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., September 1918, →OCLC, page 117

Translations

Italian sottocoperta
  • sottocopertabelow the main deck of a vessel
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APA

below decks. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/below%20decks

MLA

“below decks.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/below%20decks. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “below decks,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/below%20decks.

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