gun deck

1. 1.

   formerly any deck other than the weather deck having cannons from end to end

   Broaderdeck

Questions about gun deck

What does gun deck mean?

gun deck means "formerly any deck other than the weather deck having cannons from end to end".

Is gun deck a common word?

gun deck is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.