two-decker

English

Noun

two-decker (plural two-deckers)

1. A sail warship, which carried her guns on two fully-armed decks. Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works (forecastle and quarterdeck) but this was not a continuous battery so was not counted. Two-deckers ranged all the way from the small 40-gun fourth-rate up to 80- or even 90-gun ships, with the third-rate or "seventy-four" being the archetype.

Translations

warship

• Czech: dvojpalubník (cs) m, dvoupalubník (cs) m
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