A deck reaching half the length of a ship or boat, fore or aft.
半甲板（位于船的前部或后部，占半个船身长度）
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Atys and Rowyn were up on the half-deck, trying to steer the huge ship through the storm.
By the late act of Parliament the space Z, which is half of the half-deck, M Z, is appropriated to the seamen.
Derivatives
half-decked
adjective
Two of them were light, half-decked caravels; the Santa Maria, on which Columbus hoisted his flag, was completely decked.
Example sentencesExamples
They later designed the Seahorse, an 18 foot double-ended, half-decked, bulkheaded yacht made to carry 135 square feet of sail and a strong crew of three or four men.
Most of the boats were smack-rigged, and some were luggers, half-decked and whole-decked.
She is half-decked for added seaworthiness.
Developments begin in the 1830's, to a larger half-decked boat, often obtained from the East coast of Scotland.