0 a person, usually unskilled, who works on a ship, but who does not serve the passengers or work in the engine room
But a deckhand who was cleaning some mops in the water had already rescued the umbrella.
I've been deckhand and seaman and mate on more vessels than I can count—in every part of the uncivilized world.
It was after five in the morning when the deckhands tried to get Craig to go down to his room.
The packet swept past us, giving me a good deal the same glimpse into a different sort of life that a deckhand on a freighter has when he gazes at a liner ablaze with lights and echoing with music.
When I backed out into the river the other night I had to leave four of my best deckhands either dead or wounded on the bank.
Meanwhile, the wives of the skippers and the deckhands wait anxiously at home.
There is an illusion in the country that the ordinary deckhand in the fishing industry is a fabulously wealthy worker.
If it is not added to the gross earnings of the vessel, then only the owners benefit and deckhands, skippers and mates get nothing.
