poop deck

See also: poopdeck

English

Location of the poop deck on a ship.

Etymology

From poop (“the stern of a ship”) + deck.

Noun

poop deck (plural poop decks)

2. (nautical) A high, exposed deck at the stern of a ship on top of the cabin(s).
   • 1938, George Wharton Rice, The Shipping Days of Old Boothbay from the Revolution to the World War, page 49:

     The vessel appears strongly constructed of seasoned white oak timber, the bow bluff-headed, while aft the poop-deck has a rise which takes in the mizzenmast and pump.

Usage notes

Aftcastle refers to the whole structure and poop deck is the deck above it.

Coordinate terms

• aftcastle

Translations

stern deck on top of the cabin(s)

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: toldilla f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 艉樓甲板 / 艉楼甲板 (wěilóu jiǎbǎn), 後甲板 / 后甲板 (zh) (hòujiǎbǎn)

• Dutch: campagnedek n
• Esperanto: poŭpo, pobo
• Finnish: puuppikansi (fi), hyttikansi, peräkoroke
• French: dunette (fr) f
• German: Poop (de) f, Poopdeck n, Achterdeck (de) n
• Greek: επίστεγο (el) n (epístego)
• Hebrew: סִפּוּן בֵּית הַאַחְרָה (he) m (sipun beyt ha-akhrah)
• Irish: deic dheiridh f
• Japanese: 船尾楼甲板 (せんびろうかんぱん, senbirō kanpan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: poopdekk n

• Polish: achterdek (pl) m
• Portuguese: castelo de popa m
• Russian: ют (ru) m (jut), полую́т (ru) m (polujút)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̏сар m

  Roman: kȁsar (sh) m

• Spanish: castillo de popa m
• Swedish: hyttdäck n, poop (sv) c (archaic)