deck

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
deck/dek/

▶noun

• 1 a floor of a ship, especially the upper, open level.

  ■ a floor or platform, as in a bus or car park.

  ■ (the deck) informal the ground or floor: there was a big thud when I hit the deck.

• 2 a component or unit in sound-reproduction equipment that incorporates a playing or recording mechanism for discs or tapes.

• 3 chiefly N. Amer. a pack of cards.

  ■ N. Amer. informal a packet of narcotics.

▶verb

• 1 (usu. be decked out) decorate or dress attractively.

• 2 informal knock to the ground with a punch.

– derivatives
-decked adjective.

– origin ME (orig. denoting a canvas covering, especially on a ship, later a solid surface serving as roof and floor): from MDu. dec ‘covering, roof’, dekken ‘to cover’.