What is "foredecks"

Usage examples of "foredecks".

These were all fat-bellied little cogs, with high poops and foredecks, propelled by sails when the wind was fair and an electric jet-pump otherwise.

And then, sud­denly, I couldn't do it all: now that the need for secrecy and stealth was over someone had switched on the cargo loading lights and the midships and foredecks were bathed in a brilliant dazzle of white.

Shaking his head, he reluctantly abandoned his search to watch the great Imperial battlecruisers Benwell and Oddeon heave majestically into view, their glowing disruptors returning smoothly to parked positions on their foredecks as they approached.