Crossword clues for deckhand
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) A member of the crew of a merchant ship who performs manual labour.
WordNet
n. a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor [syn: roustabout]
Usage examples of "deckhand".
One of the deckhands was polishing the brass kickboards of the stairs leading to the texas deck.
Rock as a pvt he had worked nights as a deckhand on one of the Ala Moana boats that made moonlight cruises to Molokai for the tourists and he had had all the married women he could take care of then, but of course though, he was not in love with them.
Then the deckhands lowered the big brass thing on ropes while the Chinese went down another, one of them carrying the setscrew wrench in his teeth.
The other man, Pitt recognized as one of the deckhands, merely looked blank.
Titanic out of the harbor passed a line to the New York and deckhands were able to stop her drift before she collided with the Titanic.
The deckhands on the Carpathia lowered a mail sack then, and with trembling hands, Edwina helped Seaman Jones carefully put Fannie into it as she cried and begged Edwina not to make her do it.
Bahamian deckhands scurried about unloading coolers of iced-down grouper and tuna.
The marina was bustling as captains and deckhands secured their boats and unhappy fishermen hurried back down the piers, hauling coolers and bags filled with suntan oil and cameras.
The deckhands were left with heads and bones and no shortage of eager buyers crowding the harbour front on the other side of the Imperial barrier.
Stamping, nervous horses jostled with stablers, deckhands, soldiers and various officials.
And so it was that when Captain Jodan decided that it was time for his boys to go to sea, he contacted his friend and handed the boys over to serve as deckhands on board Dalto’s ship, the Swordfish.
Tar-begrimed deckhands whistled and leaped on the trestles to clog step, then dragged doxies along as the frenzied, wild tempo rocked up one key and took flight.
So three deckhands, much cursing, and two duckings for me were required to finally get them loaded.
Deckhands cast off the boat's mooring warps, and vibration in the deck betokened the operation of a small auxiliary engine.
He had left Europe early in the 1920s, had shipped aboard a freighter to Bolivia and, after working his way as common deckhand and laborer through half a dozen banana republics, had been washed up on an inland shore of the United States in 1934.