poop deck

noun

noun

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

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

Holonyms: watercraft, vessel, vessel
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.1938, George Wharton Rice, The Shipping Days of Old Boothbay from the Revolution to the World War, page 49:

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