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Deck chair

a folding chair usually having arms and a full length leg rest used for relaxing on the deck of a ship at poolside etc Also called steamer chair...


Deck cargo

Deck cargo. By s. 10 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 48), 'deck cargo' means any cargo carried either in any uncovered space on deck or in any covered space not included in the cubical contents forming the ship's registered tonnage. The (English) Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 Geo. 5, c. 9), s. 61, gives the Board of Trade power to make regulations, known as 'timber cargo regulations,' as to the carrying of timber in any uncovered space on deck....


electric chair

electric chair 1 : a chair used in performing a legal electrocution 2 : the penalty of death by electrocution ...


Quarter deck

That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast including the poop deck when there is one...


Chair

To place in a chair...


electric chair

a device used for execution of criminals consisting of a specially designed chair in which the victim is killed by passing a large current of electricity through the body This method of killing is called electrocution...


Morris chair

A kind of easy chair with a back which may be lowered or raised...


Rocking chair

A chair mounted on rockers in which one may rock...


Half decked

Partially decked...


main deck

The uppermost sheltered deck that runs the entire length of a large vessel...


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