adv. and sb. [f. BETWEEN prep. + DECK.] A. adv. In the space or spaces between the decks of a ship.

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1725.  De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 77. One or two of them … got between decks among our men.

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1844.  Regul. & Ord. Army, 340. No washing between decks is to take place oftener than once a week.

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  B.  sb. The space or spaces themselves.

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1769.  Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), Couradoux, between-decks; the space betwixt any two decks of a ship.

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1840.  R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast., xxii. 67. These between-decks were holy-stoned regularly.

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1852.  Ross, Humboldt’s Trav., ii. 141. They considered the between-decks of the ship as infected.

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