flush-decked

[ fluhsh-dekt ]

/ ˈflʌʃˈdɛkt /

having a weather deck flush with the hull.

Origin of flush-decked

First recorded in 1620–30

There were six feet of head-room below, and she was crown-decked and flush-decked.

The Cruise of the Snark |Jack London
As the “Vestal” gained on the chase, she was discovered to be a large ship, and pronounced to be flush-decked.

The Grateful Indian |W.H.G. Kingston
Racked into a flush-decked recess on one side of the hull was a crane arm with a two-hundred-ton lift capacity.

Code Three |Rick Raphael
Flush-decked vessels are thus termed, in contradistinction to the deep-waisted.

The Sailor's Word-Book |William Henry Smyth

She was flush-decked, and sat high in the water, with a freeboard of nearly five feet.

The Pit Prop Syndicate |Freeman Wills Crofts