Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) A ship's deck which has no overhead protection, which is open to the weather; a ship's uppermost deck.
WordNet
n. upper deck having no overhead protection from the weather, but sheltering the deck below [syn: shelter deck]
Usage examples of "weather deck".
Below the weather deck were forklift trucks for Istanbul and agricultural machinery for Varna in Bulgaria, part of a transshipment cargo that had come in from Amer.
Below the weather deck were forklift trucks for Istanbul and agricultural machinery for Varna in Bulgaria, part of a transshipment cargo that had come in from Amer-ica as far as Piraeus.
I kept right on going aft and outside, onto the weather deck, past the open bar and the tables, clear to the swimming pool.
The remains of the hemp rigging snaked over the weather deck and sides as if wadded up and dropped by a giant bird.
Fucik's weather deck was lined with paratroopers, many holding hand-launched SAMs and hoping to intercept the incoming ASM.
A woman appeared on the weather deck, carrying a can of water to one of the gun crews.
Captain Wilkes stood on the weather deck, rain lashing against his oilskins.
Looking forward through the bridge's portholes, he saw a sheet of fire carpet the weather deck.
Back aboard the Sun King the evening of the following day, Forte was having a drink on the weather deck with Jennifer Red Cloud.
He stepped outside of the pilot house to the aft weather deck and shouted down at his men.
That young Pasternak, at first in his preposterous female disguise, and next morning as a brawny round-faced soldier in a green army sweater and woolen cap, was a dream figure, and he was haunting her here on the weather deck of the Queen Elizabeth 2.
He attached the base to the ship and threw a couple of levers that hissed slightly, and then the ladder part started extending out of the base until it reached almost to the railing of the first weather deck.