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Meanings of hurricane deck in English

A deck at the top of a passenger ship.

Usage of hurricane deck in English
1
The voice of the invisible watchman called up from the hurricane deck-
Life on the Mississippi
2
To Courtenay, peering through a hatch in the hurricane deck, she cried:
The Captain of the Kansas
3
Several got permission from the admiral to ascend to the hurricane deck.
Russian Rambles
4
He came out on the hurricane deck-theman who invented the river.
The River and I
5
Just then Mr. Bixby stepped calmly into view on the hurricane deck.
Life on the Mississippi
6
On the hurricane deck, aft, a sailor was chalking a shuffleboard court.
Where the Blue Begins
7
It was cold enough up there on the hurricane deck, but here-ugh
In Search of El Dorado
8
I ascended to the hurricane deck, and thence to the pilot-house.
Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. /...
9
He had fallen, fallen all the way from the hurricane deck.
Fevre Dream
10
Marsh jumped down to the hurricane deck after him, and reloaded the gun.
Fevre Dream
11
Then the audience on the hurricane deck sent up a thundergust of humiliating laughter.
Life on the Mississippi
12
Marsh gave him two more barrels, and blew him clear off the hurricane deck.
Fevre Dream
13
Marsh scrambled down the short stairway to the hurricane deck, and began to run.
Fevre Dream
14
He will cut an even better figure on the hurricane deck of a horse.
The Human Drift
15
Rush for the hurricane deck and to the life-boat, and obey the mate's orders.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866
16
The roof of the boiler deck was the hurricane deck.
Fevre Dream
This collocation consists of:
Hurricane deck through the time
Hurricane deck across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common