on deck
English
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edit- (nautical) On the deck of a ship, especially of a captain or officer; in charge.
- 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter 19, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 213:
- In every sense of the expression he is ‘on deck’; but my Jim, for the most part, skulked down below as though he had been a stowaway.
- (baseball) Being the batter who will be up next, typically when that player is waiting on the field.
- Jones is the on-deck batter.
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editon the deck of a ship
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