Definition of "deckwise"

The once-unthinkable to Hank became his concentrated project for the next several days: to hone his deckwise wife to the mysteries of spotting and capturing humpie salmon from the viewpoint of the wheelhouse.

2013, William B. McCloskey, Raiders: A Novel

All things deckwise were under the command of the bosun.

2008, Peter Heller, The Whale Warriors

Free-running model tests showed that the SSP would heel into a high-speed turn actually somewhat more than necessary for the deckwise components of gravitational and centrifugal force to cancel.

1974, T. G Lang, J. D Higdon, Hydrodynamics of the 190-ton Stable Semisubmerged Platform (SSP)

Deckwise separation of the ends through leasing and warping reeds

1982, Textile World - Volume 132, page 22

Deckwise, there was a Supreme Capt., an Assistant Supreme Capt., a deputy Supreme Capt., six Asst. Deputy Supreme Capts., six Jr. Asst. Deputy Supreme Capts., six Jr. Third Asst. Deputy Capts., and the usual number of Chief Mates, Asst. Chief Mates, Second Mates, Third Mates and Fourth Mates, about 72 mates in all, Dad thinks.

1961, Marine Digest - Volume 40, Issues 1-18, page 8

This lobster boat wasn't much larger, deckwise, than a rowboat, it seemed.

1993, Sandy Dengler, A model murder: a Jack Prester mystery, page 112

We might have all been in the same boat during the war, but The Mauretania was arranged deckwise like the ocean liner - first class for the officers down to stowage for other ranks.

2006, Ian Bone, Bash the Rich: True-life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK, page 7

The starched maids who strolled deckwise of an evening had long since tumbled into their bunks to snore like ladies until such hour as they chose luxuriously to arise.

1912, Arthur Cheney Train, "C Q": Or, In the Wireless House, page 59

She was adorned with many movable planks, each laid deckwise when not in use as a gangway.

1913, Catholic World - Volume 97, page 769

Every time I followed a length of stairs I went deeper into the ship. Not depthwise, but deckwise.

1975, Phyllis Reid Fenner, Full forty fathoms: stories of underwater adventure, page 82