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below decks

below decks prepositional phrase: in or into any of the spaces below the main deck of a vessel.

Prepositional phrase

  1. In 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
    • 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....

Questions about below decks

What does below decks mean?
Below decks means in or into any of the spaces below the main deck of a vessel.
What part of speech is below decks?
Below decks is a prepositional phrase.

Words near below decks in the dictionary

  1. Belovsky
  2. belovèd
  3. belovèds
  4. below
  5. below average
  6. below decks
  7. below ground
  8. below par
  9. below stairs
  10. below the belt
  11. below the breadline

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