What is "deckhead"

Usage examples of "deckhead".

There was barely room to move, and with the deadlight screwed shut, the air which came through the deckhead vent tasted dirty and over-used.

He saw some of the watchkeepers stiffen and found himself staring up at the curved deckhead as some alien sound intruded above the gentle whirr of fans and the tremble of electric motors.

Heavy spaced wooden battens, held in place by wooden slots in deck and deckhead, ran the whole fore-and-aft length of the hold.

But two of the battens, the two directly behind the lemonade crate, were loose: I examined their tops with the torch and could see that there were no hinges attaching them to the deckhead: from the freshness of the wood where the screws had been, the hinges appeared to have been recently removed.

Deckheads dripped constantly and the condensation on the bulkheads sent a thousand little rivulets to pool on the corticene floor.

We were forced to pack these ships to the deckheads to get all our people aboard, and our life support could be in better shape.

She and Warner Caslet, Farnese's exec, had packed the battlecruiser, like all the other ships of the ESN, to the deckheads to get all of the escapees aboard.

Unfortunately, it would also pack Queen Adrienne to the deckheads, so Benjamin had invited Elizabeth to make the trip as his guest aboard Grayson One, instead.

Poertena had recognized the necessity of designing around higher deckheads to allow more head room for the towering Mardukans of her crew.

The two bombs, contact and not armour-piercing, struck fore and aft of the funnel, exploded simultaneously and just immediately after passing through the unprotected deckheads of the living quarters, blowing the shattered bulkheads outwards and filling the air with screaming shards of metal and broken glass, none of which reached the three prone-men.

Ahead of him, hanging from a stanchion in the deckhead, was a chain hoist.

They couldn't avoid the legally mandated color codings for emergency life support and other disaster-related access and service points, but they'd paid through the nose for permits to build double-high compartments, then used the extra height to accommodate dropped ceilings that hid the snake nests of pipes and power conduits which covered deckheads elsewhere.

All right, so this one here had been at sea twenty-two years, but he, Morrison, had a degree course in Marine Engineering behind him and quite enough sea experience to know how sensitive the deckhead Minerva sensors were, for Christ's sake.

Within the cabin the shadows bobbed this way and that to the frigate's steady motion and the swinging deckhead lanterns, and he watched the little group by the windows with something like disbelief.

Salt beef and tar, bilge and packed humanity, while all around them the massive hull creaked and groaned like a live thing, the deckhead lanterns spiralling and throwing shapes across the great timbers and seamen alike, as in part of a vast painting.