"below decks" meaning in English

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          "text": "[O]n the wind shifting and becoming more violent, the landsmen soon retired below decks.",
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          "text": "Phaidor and I were taken below decks, where, still fast bound, we were thrown into a small compartment which contained a single port-hole.",
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        "(nautical) In or into any of the spaces below the main deck of a vessel."
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