flush-decked

American  

[fluhsh-dekt] / ˈflʌʃˈdɛkt /

adjective

Nautical.

1. having a weather deck flush with the hull.

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Etymology

Origin of flush-decked

First recorded in 1620–30

Example Sentences

There were six feet of head-room below, and she was crown-decked and flush-decked.

From The Cruise of the Snark by London, Jack

She was flush-decked, and sat high in the water, with a freeboard of nearly five feet.

From The Pit Prop Syndicate by Crofts, Freeman Wills

The galliasse was sometimes flush-decked, without poop and forecastle, and sometimes built with both, but she was never so "high charged" as the galleon.

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by Masefield, John

By means of some black painted canvas let down over the main-deck ports, she was made to look like a corvette, or flush-decked vessel.

From Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Racked into a flush-decked recess on one side of the hull was a crane arm with a two-hundred-ton lift capacity.

From Code Three by Raphael, Rick