deck hand
Example Sentences
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He works as a deck hand, helping to load coal onto river barges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025
The deck hand went onto the deck to close the yacht's windows.
From BBC ● May 14, 2025
Chuck Bundrant, an epic figure in North Pacific fisheries who started his career as a deck hand on a crabber and went on to cofound Seattle-based Trident Seafoods, died Sunday at his Edmonds home.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2021
He eased the boat in and shut it down while deck hand Travis Richey grabbed a plastic whiffle ball bat with the end cut off.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 1, 2016
Here the "Drafting Officer" is trying to palm off a deck hand on the C.O. of a trawler, who is vainly explaining that he must have a signalman.
From Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships by Charles W. (Charles William) Domville-Fife
