two-decker
two-decker noun: a sail warship, which carried her guns on two fully-armed decks. Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works (forecastle and quarterdeck) but this was not a continuous battery so was not counted. Two-deckers ranged all the way from the small 40-gun fourth-rate up to 80- or even 90-gun ships, with the third-rate or "seventy-four" being the archetype.
Noun
two-decker (plural two-deckers)
- A sail warship, which carried her guns on two fully-armed decks. Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works (forecastle and quarterdeck) but this was not a continuous battery so was not counted. Two-deckers ranged all the way from the small 40-gun fourth-rate up to 80- or even 90-gun ships, with the third-rate or "seventy-four" being the archetype.
- Synonym of double-decker (“headline covering two lines”).
- Synonyms:
- double-decker
Synonyms of two-decker
Forms of two-decker
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Questions about two-decker
- What does two-decker mean?
- Two-decker means a sail warship, which carried her guns on two fully-armed decks. Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works (forecastle and quarterdeck) but this was not a continuous battery so was not counted. Two-deckers ranged all the way from the small 40-gun fourth-rate up to 80- or even 90-gun ships, with the third-rate or "seventy-four" being the archetype.
- What part of speech is two-decker?
- Two-decker is a noun.
- What is the plural of two-decker?
- The plural of two-decker is two-deckers.
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