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Half-DECK
Half-DECK, (corps de garde, Fr.) a space under the quarter-deck of a ship of war, contained between the foremost bulk-head of the steerage, and the fore-part of the quarter-deck.In the colliers of Northumberland the steerage itself is called the half-deck, and is usually the habitation of the ship's crew.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 98, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0421.html