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/dˈəbəl-dˈɛkər/ Listen

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Double-decker" Quotes from Famous Books

... did to unload freight and baggage, for this would positively be our last steamer. Outside the boys worked as industriously as we women. In the old log-house, a hundred feet from our door, was the building now used for a woodshed. Here, upon a big "double-decker" saw-buck, two of the boys, with the big saw between them, worked away, hour after hour, at the great logs of driftwood brought from the beach, as this was the only kind of fuel here used, and much was needed ...

— A Woman who went to Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan

... parabolas, swinging invisibly across from horizon to horizon, we withdrew behind the farmhouse for lunch—sandwiches, frankfurters kept hot in a fireless cooker, and red wine—when far overhead a double-decker English aeroplane suddenly sailed over us. It seemed to be about six thousand feet above us, so high that the sound of its motors was lost, and its speed seemed but a lazy, level drifting across the blue. Did it take those three motor-cars and those little dots ...

— Antwerp to Gallipoli - A Year of the War on Many Fronts--and Behind Them • Arthur Ruhl