double-deck
[See double a. C. 2 and deck n.]
Used attrib. in designations of structures, vehicles, etc., having two platforms, floors, or planes one above the other. So double-decked a. [double a. C. 1]; double-decking vbl. n.
| 1869 Trans. Ill. State Agric. Soc. 1867–69 VII. 460 Sheep arrive here from the west in single decked cars, but leave in double decked ones. 1894 W. T. Stead If Christ came to Chicago! 186 Mr. Pullman has devised an admirable double-deck car. 1903 A. H. Beavan Tube, Train, Tram, & Car xv. 212 Electric omnibuses..double-decked. 1906 [see deck n.1 3 d]. 1910 A. Williams Engin. Wonders World II. 49/2 The makers claim that.. it [sc. the Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge] could be made double-decked. Ibid. 267/1 The double-deck floor accommodates four elevated railway tracks. 1917 C. C. Turner Aircraft of To-day ii. 34 The ‘double-deck’ type of rectangular planes. 1930 Times Educ. Suppl. 17 May p. iv/3 The building will have double-deck lifts, which will permit the taking on and discharging of passengers at two floors simultaneously. 1955 Times 9 May 18/1 A double-deck self-parking garage. 1956 Wallis & Blair Thunder Above (1959) i. 6 The huge double-decked airliner. 1959 Manch. Guardian 29 Jan. 6/5 The proposed double-decking of the first mile of the Great West Road. 1960 Baker & Johnson Dict. Highway Traffic 55 Double-deck road, a collective term for a high-level road and a low-level road that both follow the same route, one over the other. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 17/3 A gang of youths captured a double-deck bus. |