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, 79, an epic figure in North Pacific fisheries who started his career as a deck hand on a crabber and went on to co-found Seattle-based Trident Seafoods, died Oct.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 22, 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
“Aye, aye, all aboard,” was the response from Fritz’s friend the deck hand, who, with only a red flannel shirt on and a pair of check trousers—very unsailorlike in appearance altogether—stood in the bows.
From Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)
