on deck en · ADP
Meanings
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On the deck of a ship, especially of a captain or officer; in charge.
In every sense of the expression he is ‘on deck’; but my Jim, for the most part, skulked down below as though he had been a stowaway.
1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XIX, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 213:
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Being the batter who will be up next, typically when that player is waiting on the field.
Jones is the on-deck batter.
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Translations (1)
fr sur le pont (on the deck of a ship)