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belowdecks

[ bih-loh-deks ]

adverb

Nautical.
  1. within the hull of a vessel:

    Fire raged belowdecks.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of belowdecks1

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Example Sentences

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Under the cover of night, the young woman boarded the ship and was given a place belowdecks by a friendly captain named John Bowles.

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But the nightmare was just beginning for him and the other kidnapped Africans forced belowdecks.

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There was even a TV ad featuring a solo trans-Atlantic sailor named Ken Clift who, in a raging storm, goes belowdecks to sip coffee from a globe mug.

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How and Bakewell waded through the icy water that flooded the belowdecks cabins and brought out an important treasure from the darkroom: Frank Hurley’s box of glass photographic plates.

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A few weeks ago, Hazel wouldn’t have believed that anyone could sleep through a numina attack, but now she imagined her friends were still snoring away belowdecks.

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