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orlop

[ UK /ˈɔːləp/ ]
NOUN
  1. the fourth or lowest deck

How To Use orlop In A Sentence

  • The screaming was coming from up on the orlop deck. The Terror
  • As far as they could tell without lighting lamps and going down into the hold and orlop deck, this was the only dead body on board. The Terror
  • Have my steward fetch my armor, and send the wizard to the orlop.
  • I came to see for myself if the sick berth would be moving to the orlop.
  • Reaghan was the last to drop into the orlop and close it's trapdoor.
  • Sleeping-place; (to clean the cabins of the petty officers in the nether orlop), and to admonish them all in general [it being dangerous perhaps, in a poor swabber, to admonish in particular] to be cleanly and handsom, and to complain to the Captain, of all such as will be any way nastie and offensive that way. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
  • Battered chain-gangs of the orlop, grizzled draughts of years gone by ... CHAPTER XXXV
  • Not when you were carried to the orlop deck full of king-sized splinters from cannonballs smashing through wooden hulls, I imagine.
  • Knowing that the orlop deck fire alone would have been enough — these timbers were dried to tinder after six years in this arctic desert — he still took time to light the lines of powder on the lower deck and open upper deck. The Terror
  • Below this again is one still lower-deck called the orlop-deck. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
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