stable-deck

Updated: May 21, 2025

We finished with a sing-song on deck, a crooning, desultory performance, with sleepy choruses, and a homely beer-bottle passing from mouth to mouth. Then came the tropics and the heat, and the steamy doldrums, when the stable-deck was an "Inferno," and exercising the horses like a tread-mill in a Turkish bath, and stall-cleaning an unspeakable business.

Erskine Childers - In the Ranks of the C.I.V.

The horses would be taken out of their stalls, and half of us would lead them round the stable-deck for exercise, while the rest took out the partitions and cleaned the stalls. Then ensued exciting scenes in getting them back again, an operation that most would not agree to without violent compulsion and small blame to the poor brutes. It used to take our whole sub-division to shove my roan in.

Erskine Childers - In the Ranks of the C.I.V.