abstract:A cold deck is a stacked deck of playing cards which is typically switched with the deck actually being used in the game in question, to the benefit of the player or the dealer making the switch. A stacked deck is a deck of cards arranged in a preset order, designed to give a specific outcome when the cards are dealt.
He would often stand on the deck of his ship, in the cold rain and fierce winds.
VOA: special.2009.12.23
But I with mournful tread, Walk the deck my captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
VOA: special.2009.12.31
I'm writing this blog from Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a cold katabatic wind is blowing off the ice onto the deck of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise.