The Collaborative International Dictionary
Undecked \Un*decked\, a.
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Not decked; unadorned.
[Eve] undecked, save with herself, more lovely fair.
--Milton. Not having a deck; as, an undecked vessel.
Wiktionary
a. Having no deck.
Usage examples of "undecked".
They were undecked biremes sitting low in the water, two men to an oar, each owning a skimpy sail.
They preferred taut, trim triremes and biremes, usually undecked, with two banks of oars in outriggers and very businesslike bronze beaks for ramming.
They numbered three hundred decked war galleys of three or more banks, over one hundred undecked two-banker biremes, and fifteen hundred transports stuffed with troops and marines.
In addition to the Roman ships there were three quadriremes from Rhodes and three Athenian undecked vessels which had been fitted out to protect their coast.
It was a sight to make sailors scurry for safe harbor, even if they were not aboard an undecked, anchorless row-boat fleeing from the iniquity of Man and the wrath of God.