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spar deck
[′spar ‚dek] (naval architecture)
A deck fitted from bow to stern on a superstructure having heavier scantlings than those under an awning deck.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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"Hereafter no specimens of coral, live shells, or anything else that may produce a bad smell, will be taken below the
spar deck, or into any of the rooms," Wilkes ordered early in the expedition.
Perched atop a 5,000-pound cannon on the
spar deck of the oldest commissioned war ship afloat in the U.S.
Maritime Administration contracted with a Florida shipyard to add 41,000-square-foot
spar decks to three Ready Reserve Fleet vessels--Cape Rise, Cape Race, and Cape Ray.
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