King James Bible Dictionary

DECK, verb transitive

1. Primarily, to cover; to overspread; to put on. Hence,

2. To clothe; to dress the person; but usually, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.

The dew with spangles decked the ground.

3. To furnish with a deck as a vessel.

DECK, noun

1. The covering of a ship, which constitutes a floor, made of timbers and planks. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks. A flush deck is a continued floor from stem to stern, on one line.

2. A pack of cards piled regularly on each other.

DECK'ED, participle passive Covered; adorned; furnished with a deck.

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.

DECK'ING, participle present tense Covering; arraying; adorning.

DECK'ING, noun Ornament; embellishment.