poop deck

See also: poopdeck

English

Location of the poop deck on a ship.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

poop deck (plural poop decks)

2. (nautical) A high, exposed deck at the stern of a ship on top of the cabin(s).

   Hypernym: deck

   Holonyms: watercraft, vessel, vessel

   Comeronyms: aftcastle, aftercastle

   Coordinate terms: afterdeck, foredeck

   • 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

The aftcastle is the whole structure and the poop deck is the deck above it.

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)
• Korean: 후갑판 (ko) (hugap'pan), 선미갑판 (seonmigap'pan)
• 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

  Latin: kȁsar (sh) m

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