WordNet
n. upper deck having no overhead protection from the weather, but sheltering the deck below [syn: weather deck]
Usage examples of "shelter deck".
Pick up what you want from your cabin and get along to the port shelter deck.
Under the cover of the shelter deck lay rolls of mesh laced with ice, net bags of buoys, a welder's table with vice, storage lockers and oil drums of shovels and grappling hooks.
So how many piano rolls or even pianos would it take to fill the shelter deck and cold-storage hold of a southbound coaster that should have delivered most of its passengers and cargo by the time it neared the end of its run?
Then, as if in unison, their cutters were lowered and the captains came across and began climbing a hastily thrown boarding ladder to the Titanic's shelter deck.