deck passage


noun
  1. overnight accommodation on a vessel other than in a regular sleeping space.

Origin of deck passage

1
An Americanism dating back to 1820–30

Other words from deck passage

  • deck passenger, noun

Words Nearby deck passage

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How to use deck passage in a sentence

  • In ordinary times fares ranged from ₱50 saloon accommodation to ₱8 a deck passage.

    The Philippine Islands | John Foreman
  • Jim said we could take deck passage on a steamboat now, and the money would last us as far as we wanted to go in the free States.

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • That warn't enough to take us fourteen hundred mile, deck passage nor no other way.

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • It was doubtless the former, since he had said his parents were wealthy, and he only traveled deck passage because it was cooler.

    Life On The Mississippi, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • At half-past ten, sir, then being slightly under the influence of liquor, he accepted the price of a deck passage to Stockton.