deck > define

noun

• Any of various platforms built into a vessel.
• Street name for a packet of illegal drugs.
• A pack of 52 playing cards.
  • synonyms: pack of cards, deck of cards
• A porch that resembles the deck on a ship.

verb

• Be beautiful to look at.
  • usage: "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"
  • synonyms: adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautify
• Decorate.
  • usage: "deck the halls with holly"
  • synonyms: bedight, bedeck
• Knock down with force.
  • usage: "He decked his opponent"
  • synonyms: coldcock, dump, knock down, floor

• (v.) The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat.
• (v.) The roof of a passenger car.
• (v.t.) To cover; to overspread.
• (v.) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
• (v.t.) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
• (v.) A heap or store.
• (v.t.) To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.
• (v.) A pack or set of playing cards.
• (n.) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.

Deck refers to the orders held by a floor broker. Often, separate orders are written on individual cards or tickets and the collective amount is a' Deck'.