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two-deckers

two-deckers is the plural of two-decker.

Meaning of two-decker

Noun

two-decker (plural two-deckers)

  1. 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.
  2. Synonym of double-decker (“headline covering two lines”).
    Synonyms:
    double-decker

Questions about two-deckers

What is two-deckers the plural of?
Two-deckers is the plural of two-decker.

Words near two-deckers in the dictionary

  1. two-by-four
  2. two-by-fours
  3. two-cycle
  4. two-cylinder
  5. two-decker
  6. two-deckers
  7. two-dimensional
  8. two-dimensionally
  9. two-dish rice
  10. two-dollar shop
  11. two-dollar word

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