orlop
orlop noun: the platform over the hold of a ship that makes up the fourth or lowest deck, hence in full called orlop deck, especially of a warship.
Noun
orlop (plural orlops)
- The platform over the hold of a ship that makes up the fourth or lowest deck, hence in full called orlop deck, especially of a warship.
- VVhen you haue berthed or brought her [the ship] vp to the planks, vvhich are thoſe thicke timbers vvhich goeth fore and aft on each ſide, vvhereon doth lie the beames of the firſt Orlop, vvhich is the firſt floore to ſupport the plankes doth couer the Hovvle, thoſe are great croſſe timbers, that...1627, Iohn Smith [i.e., John Smith], “How to Build a Ship with the Definitions of All the Principall Names of Euery Part of her Principall Timbers, also How They are Fixed One to Another, and the...
orlop meaning in Tamil
orlop in Tamil
- கப்பலடியகட்டுத்தளம்
Forms of orlop
| plural | orlops |
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Origin of orlop
From Middle English overlop (“deck of a single-decker”), from Middle Low German overlop (“which leaps overhead”). Compare overloop.
Phrases with orlop
Questions about orlop
- What does orlop mean?
- Orlop means the platform over the hold of a ship that makes up the fourth or lowest deck, hence in full called orlop deck, especially of a warship.
- What is orlop in Tamil?
- Orlop in Tamil is கப்பலடியகட்டுத்தளம். See Orlop meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is orlop?
- Orlop is a noun.
- What is the plural of orlop?
- The plural of orlop is orlops.
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