(aviation) Flying at a very low altitude.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, the, deck.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgWherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. Sylvia Plath
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas. Laura Hillenbrand
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. Henry David Thoreau
"The poet felt completely free now as he stood there on the deck in his collar and boots, sailing past new and ever newer districts; even if he did not own this land's resources, he owned its beauty. Halldór Laxness
I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up. Barney Ross
The musicians had played on the deck as the ship went down. They had forfeited their lives for the sake of others. They had played the tunes of hymns to induce a spirit of peace and calm. They were heroic. Steve Turner