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noun

Double-decker n. (Naut.)

A man-of-war having two gun decks.

(a)

A tenement house having two families on each floor. (Local, U. S.)

(b)

A biplane aeroplane or kite. (Colloq.)

Anything having two decks or levels, as a bus with two levels for passengers. In older vehicles, less often today, the upper deck was open, as on street cars. (Colloq.)

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Etymology of 'Double-decker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Double-decker" Quotes from Famous Books

... distance of some two hundred miles by dog trains over mountains higher than the American Rockies. And once on the shores of the Pacific itself, another fort must be built on the east side of the Kamchatka peninsula. And the two double-decker vessels must be constructed to voyage over the sleepy swell of the North Pacific to that mythical realm of mist like a blanket, and strange, unearthly rumblings smoking up from the cold Arctic sea, with the red light of a flame ...

— Vikings of the Pacific - The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward • Agnes C. Laut

Words linked to "Double-decker" : window, coach, minibus, school bus, passenger vehicle, rider, autobus, trolleybus, omnibus, fleet, roof, trackless trolley, passenger, jitney, charabanc, motorcoach