shelter deck

Questions about shelter deck

What does shelter deck mean?

shelter deck means "upper deck having no overhead protection from the weather, but sheltering the deck below".

What is another word for shelter deck?

Close synonyms include weather deck. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shelter deck a common word?

shelter deck is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.