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deck hand
noun as in jack
noun as in sailor
noun as in seafarer
noun as in seaman/woman
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If his new deck-hand and cook's mate would come alongside at five or thereabouts, he would see to their adequate reception.
You had but to scratch lightly a mate or a deck-hand to find the old keel-boatman savagery.
He swapped his neat suit of brown with a deck-hand, and received some particularly unkempt garments.
A deck-hand tossed a cast-line to the steamer's deck, and Mayo promptly threw it back.
A deck-hand jumped ashore with a rope, while the man at the wheel gave gruff directions.
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On this page you'll find 97 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to deck hand, such as: bluejacket, boater, cadet, diver, jack-tar, and lascar.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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