deck hand
Nautical. a sailor whose duties are performed on deck.
Origin of deck hand
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How to use deck hand in a sentence
If his new deck-hand and cook's mate would come alongside at five or thereabouts, he would see to their adequate reception.
Jaffery | William J. LockeYou had but to scratch lightly a mate or a deck-hand to find the old keel-boatman savagery.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineHe swapped his neat suit of brown with a deck-hand, and received some particularly unkempt garments.
Blow The Man Down | Holman DayA deck-hand tossed a cast-line to the steamer's deck, and Mayo promptly threw it back.
Blow The Man Down | Holman DayA deck-hand jumped ashore with a rope, while the man at the wheel gave gruff directions.
The Riddle of the Sands | Erskine Childers
British Dictionary definitions for deck hand
a seaman assigned various duties, such as mooring and cargo handling, on the deck of a ship
(in Britain) a seaman over 17 years of age who has seen sea duty for at least one year
a helper aboard a yacht
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