shade deck

noun

, Nautical.

First recorded in 1890–95

As the ship began to move a band on the shade-deck struck up "Auld Lang Syne," and immediately the floodgates were unlocked.

Not a single human being have I ever descried on the "shade-deck" or on the towering bridge.

It is roofed by the "shade deck," which is rigidly reserved "for navigators only."

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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