decker

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DECK'ER, noun 1. One who decks or adorns; a coverer; as a table-decker. 2. Of a ship, we say, she is a two-decker or a three-decker, that is, she has two decks or three decks.
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