deckwise

English

Alternative forms

• deck-wise

Etymology

From deck +‎ -wise.

Adjective

deckwise (comparative more deckwise, superlative most deckwise)

1. Knowledgeable about working as a deckhand.
   • 2013, William B. McCloskey, Raiders: A Novel, →ISBN:

     The once-unthinkable to Hank became his concentrated project for the next several days: to hone his deckwise wife to the mysteries of spotting and capturing humpie salmon from the viewpoint of the wheelhouse.

2. Pertaining to the deck.
   • 2008, Peter Heller, The Whale Warriors, →ISBN:

     All things deckwise were under the command of the bosun.

3. Along or toward the deck.
   • 1974, T. G Lang, J. D Higdon, Hydrodynamics of the 190-ton Stable Semisubmerged Platform (SSP):

     Free-running model tests showed that the SSP would heel into a high-speed turn actually somewhat more than necessary for the deckwise components of gravitational and centrifugal force to cancel.

   • 1982, Textile World - Volume 132, page 22:

     Deckwise separation of the ends through leasing and warping reeds

Adverb

deckwise (comparative more deckwise, superlative most deckwise)

1. Concerning the deck.
   • 1961, Marine Digest - Volume 40, Issues 1-18, page 8:

     Deckwise, there was a Supreme Capt., an Assistant Supreme Capt., a deputy Supreme Capt., six Asst. Deputy Supreme Capts., six Jr. Asst. Deputy Supreme Capts., six Jr. Third Asst. Deputy Capts., and the usual number of Chief Mates, Asst. Chief Mates, Second Mates, Third Mates and Fourth Mates, about 72 mates in all, Dad thinks.

   • 1993, Sandy Dengler, A model murder: a Jack Prester mystery, →ISBN, page 112:

     This lobster boat wasn't much larger, deckwise, than a rowboat, it seemed.

   • 2006, Ian Bone, Bash the Rich: True-life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK, page 7:

     We might have all been in the same boat during the war, but The Mauretania was arranged deckwise like the ocean liner - first class for the officers down to stowage for other ranks.

2. Along or toward the deck.
   • 1912, Arthur Cheney Train, "C Q": Or, In the Wireless House, page 59:

     The starched maids who strolled deckwise of an evening had long since tumbled into their bunks to snore like ladies until such hour as they chose luxuriously to arise.

   • 1913, Catholic World - Volume 97, page 769:

     She was adorned with many movable planks, each laid deckwise when not in use as a gangway.

   • 1975, Phyllis Reid Fenner, Full forty fathoms: stories of underwater adventure, →ISBN, page 82:

     Every time I followed a length of stairs I went deeper into the ship. Not depthwise, but deckwise.