Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To furnish with a deck. · To knock (someone) to the floor, especially with a single punch. · To cause (a player) to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAny raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop. · The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship or boat. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks. · A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane. · A pack or set of playing cards.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-der. Proto-Germanic *þaką Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *þakjaną Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan Old Dutch thecken Middle Dutch deckendeverb. Middle Dutch decbor. Middle English dekke English deck From Middle English dekke, borrowed from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”), from Middle Dutch decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną. Formed the same: German Decke (“covering, blanket”). Doublet of thatch and thack.
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