Orlop deck
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The orlop deck is the lowest deck of a vessel, where the cables are stowed overlapping, hence the name. It is almost invariably a nasty, slimy place due to the wet and muddy cables stowed there. The name, which already appears in English usage in papers connected with the ship Mary Rose (1510-45), is derived from the Dutch noun overloop ('overflow, passage, gangway').
