What is "deckhouse"

Usage examples of "deckhouse".

Looking through the wide deckhouse windows, I saw the slim, brown, bikinied shape of Martha Borden emerge from the kitchen door just mentioned.

Miss Carnegie was sitting under the lee of the deckhouse aft, watching him, and somehow or other he did not choose to have a scene before her.

Scholar carried one whole specimen into the deckhouse as a subject for odylic dissection.

A team of sailors had re-erected the deckhouse on shore, using piles of sand to brace the sides in place of the turnbuckles that normally clamped it to the deck.

Two sizable deckhouses bracketed the amidships section, their roofs fancifully curved at the ends.

While Jeremy dug the lower end of a pole into the bottom of the channel and strained his wiry weight against the upper end, doing his best to steer, keeping the catamaran from running afoul again on reeds and stumps, the girl went back into the deckhouse to check on the condition of the man.

The smell of the crated cabbages on the after deckhouse made a singularly sickening marriage with the stack fumes.

The SPS-40 was already stowed in its container and was even partially disassembled and the pieces thrown overboard--it would look very, very bad to have the Iranians find a sophisticated air surveillance radar on a salvage ship--but the SPS-69, which had been hoisted 100 feet above the deckhouse, was slow in coming down.

There was a small deckhouse around the wheel amidships, and a wooden coaming over the big aircraft engines at the stern that could hurl the frail concoction through a calm sea at better than thirty knots.

There was no one in sight, but he heard a fiddle and what sounded like an accordion, and what hed thought was just an anchor light was also the gleam of light from the scuttles of a low, midships deckhouse.

There was no one in sight, but he heard a fiddle and what sounded like an accordion, and what he'd thought was just an anchor light was also the gleam of light from the scuttles of a low, midships deckhouse.

For the moment I turned the corner of the deckhouse and had an unobstructed view astern, there it was -- apparently two full moons rising close over the stern of the ship and lighting the decks and rigging with a sickly yellow glow -- the eyes of the colossal squid.

Thanks to One-Eye’s foresight we had the makings for firebombs by the score, and ready bombs in well-protected nests atop the deckhouse.

He was content to sit with Barbara in two hammock chairs in the shade of the deckhouse - there were beckets to which the chairs could be hooked to prevent them sliding down the deck to leeward as Pretty Jane heeled over - and think about nothing in particular, watching the flying fish furrowing the surface, and the patches of yellow Sargasso weed drift by, gold against the blue, and an occasional turtle swimming manfully along far from land.

He was content to sit with Barbara in two hammock chairs in the shade of the deckhouse —.