deckhouse

English

Etymology

From deck +‎ house.

Noun

deckhouse (plural deckhouses)

1. A cabin that protrudes above a ship's deck.
   • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 5, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

     Flinging himself on hands and knees he dragged the girl down with him. As he did so two of her companions came sliding down to their assistance, and the four glissaded back to the deckhouse as the following roll began.

   • 2008 January 4, Wendy Moonan, “The Auction Block Is the Next Stop for a Well-Traveled Lady”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Then, through his web of contacts, he was told that the Nightingale’s original deckhouse was being used as a cottage on a private island outside of Kragero, Norway, a shipbuilding port.

Translations

cabin on the deck of a boat

• Bulgarian: ру́бка f (rúbka)
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: roef (nl) f
• Finnish: kansirakennus
• French: rouf (fr) m
• German: Deckhaus n, Deckshaus n
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: teach deice m
• Maori: pakokori
• Polish: pokładówka f, nadbudówka (pl) f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: ру́бка (ru) f (rúbka)
• Spanish: caseta de cubierta f
• Swedish: däckshus n
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: ру́бка f (rúbka)

See also

• wheelhouse, which may and may not be the same
• living cabin, which may be the same on some vessels