Definition of "half-decked" [half•-decked]

• Partially decked. (adjective)

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• "That night, long after dark, the little, half-decked skiff sailed up the Oakland Estuary."
• "A grinning small boy, in a small, bright-painted and half-decked skiff, sailed close in to the wall and let go his sheet to spill the wind."
• "Sir Duncan Campbell, therefore, rather shunned the Highlands, and falling into the Low-country, made for the nearest seaport in the vicinity, where he had several half-decked galleys, or birlings, as they were called, at his command."