To cover; overspread; invest; especially, to array or clothe with something resplendent or ornamental; adorn; embellish; set out: as, to deck one's self for a wedding; she was decked with jewels.Nautical, to furnish with or as with a deck, as a vessel.In mining, to load or unload (the cars or tubs) upon the cage.[Cf. deck, n., 5.] To discard. Grose.n. A covering; anything that serves as a sheltering cover.n. An approximately horizontal platform or floor extending from side to side of a ship or of a part of a ship, as of a deck-house, and supported by beams and carlines.n. In mining, the platform of the cage; that part of the cage on which the cars stand or the men ride. Cages are sometimes built with as many as four decks.n. A pile of things laid one upon another; a heap; a store; a file, as of cards or papers.n. A pack of cards containing only those necessary to play any given game: as, a euchre deck; a bezique deck.n. That part of a pack which remains after the deal, and from which cards may be drawn during the course of the game.n. To command every part of the deck, as with small arms, from the tops of an attacking vessel, To take off or carry away all the stakes on a card-table; hence, generally, to gain everything.To rig out: as, to deck the card-cylinder of a Jacquard loom.n. n. In car-building, the roof of the clearstory of a passenger-car, often called upper deck; also, the sloping roof on either side of the clearstory, often called lower deck. The word is used in many compounds, such as deck-hood, a projecting shelter to keep the rain out of the deck-end ventilator of a streetcar; deck-lamp, a gas-lamp suspended from the under side of the deck; deck-sash, a clearstory window.