English Explanatory Dictionary

orlop

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The platform over the hold of a ship that makes up the fourth or lowest deck, hence in full called orlop deck, especially of a warship.

Word forms

orlop orlops

Etymology

From Middle English overlop (“deck of a single-decker”), from Middle Low German overlop (“which leaps overhead”). Compare overloop.

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