deck-hand

Thorough deck-hand as he was, there might have been reason to fear that he would repent of the transfer; but no, he quickly became life and soul an engineer.

The South Pole~ On the Way to the South 2009

Thorough deck-hand as he was, there might have been reason to fear that he would repent of the transfer; but no, he quickly became life and soul an engineer.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

You had but to scratch lightly a mate or a deck-hand to find the old keel-boatman savagery.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Six weeks ago Leah had heard on the yachtie grapevine in Darwin that the owner of The Zephyr wanted a female deck-hand, someone young and attractive who knew about sailing boats and who could handle the hostessing part of the job.

Fugitive Bride Lee, Miranda 1998

· · · A FRIEND lately returned from the west, relates among other matters the following anecdote: 'On board of one of the steam-boats on the Mississippi, I encountered a deck-hand, who went by the name of BARNEY.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Various

The deck-hand, filling the water barrel from a pail let over the ship's side, explained the swamp water's virtues.

Heart of the Blue Ridge Waldron Baily

The captain sent a deck-hand for Dick, and the boy appeared on deck in overalls and jumper, cap in hand.

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

I know that the life of a deck-hand will not bear a very close examination for æsthetic purposes.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

Long, his senior partner, was a western man of hard, keen business sense, who had come to New Orleans fifty years before, a barefooted deck-hand on an Ohio schooner.

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

It was a pretty close call, but they were looking for a well-dressed man, and not a black deck-hand.

Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol