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Decker

noun

English dramatist and pamphleteer (1572-1632). Synonyms: Dekker, Thomas Decker, Thomas Dekker.

(often used in combinations) something constructed with multiple levels.

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... Donnai or Saigon branch up to and above Saigon for vessels of the largest tonnage, and the great Sindh steamed up to a wharf and moored alongside it, almost under the shade of great trees. A French three-decker of the old type, moored higher up, serves as an hospital. There were two French ironclads, a few steamers, and some big sailing ships at anchor, but nothing looked busy, and the people on the ...

— The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)

... services; Grant's defeat, capture of Fort du Quesne and erection of Fort Pitt: Tygart and Files settle on East Fork of Monongahela, File's family killed by Indians, Dunkards visit the country, settle on Cheat, their fate; settlement under Decker on the Monongahela, destroyed by Indians, pursuit by Gibson, origin of Long ...

— Chronicles of Border Warfare • Alexander Scott Withers

... to me: a few lines soon are better than a three-decker a month hence: for I really want to know where and how you are: and so be a good boy for once in your life. Ever ...

— Letters of Edward FitzGerald - in two volumes, Vol. 1 • Edward FitzGerald

... his hours of leisure. She was only six inches in length of keel, by less than three in breadth of beam, and her tonnage, if registered—which it never was— would have been about half a pound avoirdupois. A small craft you will style her; but at that time, in my eyes, she was as grand as a three-decker. ...

— The Boy Tar • Mayne Reid

... "It is a two-decker's royal, Master Dutton," returned the young sailor; "and now you see the fore and main, separately, ...

— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper

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