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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OR'LOP, n.
In a ship of war, a platform of planks laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are usually coiled. It contains also sail-rooms, carpenters' cabins and other apartments.
Also, a tier of beams below the lower deck for a like purpose.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the fourth or lowest deck [syn: orlop deck, orlop, fourth deck]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. the lowest deck of a ship with three or more decks. Etymology: ME f. MDu. overloop covering f. overloopen run over (as OVER-, LEAP)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Orlop Or"lop, n. [D. overloop the upper deck, lit., a running over or overflowing, fr. overloopen to run over. See Over, and Leap, and cf. Overloop.] (Naut.) The lowest deck of a vessel, esp. of a ship of war, consisting of a platform laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are coiled.