deck
/dɛk/ verb C2- To cover; to overspread.
He/she/it decks · Past decked · Past participle decked · -ing form decking
Verb forms
- Base form
- deck
- He/she/it
- decks
- Past
- decked
- Past participle
- decked
- -ing form
- decking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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When he opened his eyes Dantès found himself on the deck of the tartan.
As we have said, he was lying on the deck.
The next morning going on deck, as he always did at an early hour, the patron found Dantès leaning against the bulwarks gazing with intense earnestness at a pile of granite rocks, which the rising sun tinged with rosy light.
Evening came, and Edmond saw the island tinged with the shades of twilight, and then disappear in the darkness from all eyes but his own, for he, with vision accustomed to the gloom of a prison, continued to behold it last of all, for he remained alone upon deck.
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