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
For a couple of years in the 1960s, he worked as a deck hand on the state ferries.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2018
Two bags, filled with six cans of Planters mixed nuts and seven boxes of K-Cup coffee, were quickly tied on by the Westcott’s deck hand and hoisted aboard the freighter.
From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2016
My blundering deck hand came promptly at my call, and I gave him the steering oar, bidding him keep the raft steady before the current.
From Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants by Optic, Oliver
