orlop

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English overlop (“deck of a single-decker”), from Middle Low German overlop (“which leaps overhead”). Compare overloop. === Noun === orlop (plural orlops) (nautical) 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. ==== Translations ==== === References === “orlop” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC. Page 12 of The Fortune of War, by Patrick O'Brian John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “orlop”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. CorPun - Glossary of Royal Navy terms