Definition of "orlop-deck" [orlop-deck]

• See deck, 2, and orlop. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He looks down the orlop-deck aisle running forward between the piled casks and crates."
• "Through the roar of battle, sobs of dear love sounded along the blood-stained deck, as Dan and another seaman took the pride of our nation tenderly, and carried him down to the orlop-deck."
• "Not to tell over again his furlongs from spiracle to tail, and the yards he measured about the waist; only think of the gigantic involutions of his intestines, where they lie in him like great cables and hawsers coiled away in the subterranean orlop-deck of a line-of-battle-ship."