Explore Deckhand through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like gob or seafarer. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Deckhand meaning
- A member of the crew of a merchant ship who performs manual labour.
- A stagehand.
Using Deckhand
- The main meaning on this page is: A member of the crew of a merchant ship who performs manual labour. | A stagehand.
- Useful related words include: roustabout, gob, seafarer, old salt.
- In the example corpus, deckhand often appears in combinations such as: the deckhand, lead deckhand, deckhand for.
Context around Deckhand
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 12 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Deckhand
- In this selection, "deckhand" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, lead, new, assisting, haleigh, chase and joe stand out and add context to how "deckhand" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a deckhand and a and and assisting deckhand rob westergaard. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "deckhand" sits close to words such as aare, aarti and abl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with deckhand
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Below Deck: Who is new deckhand Robert Phillips? (8 words)
A deckhand and a dog were also aboard, he said. (10 words)
She came in mid-season to replace third deckhand Abbi Murphy. (11 words)
It takes an original mind to spot a unique concept, and the founder of Pizza Express, Peter Boizot, was a Cambridge-educated maverick who’d dabbled in everything from toiling as a deckhand to teaching and working in PR as well as for a Rome press agency. (47 words)
In fact, when it comes to the exterior crew, specifically her roommate, fellow deckhand James Hough, she’s proven that not only can she take his joking around, but she can give it back ten times better. (37 words)
Bags of abalone pried from the rocks are brought to the surface by the diver or by way of "shot line", where the deckhand drops a weighted rope for the catch bag to be connected then retrieved. (37 words)
Below Deck: Who is new deckhand Robert Phillips? (8 words)
Example sentences (20)
It was a doozy of an episode with deckhand Haleigh Gorman off the Mustique yacht for throwing up.
One memorable name was deckhand Chase Lemacks from season 4. The South Carolina native had the same role on Captain Glenn Shephard's yacht as Alex.
The deckhand found himself caught in a love triangle between stews Camille Lamb and Leigh-Ann on and was called out for cutting off communication with the latter.
The exchange, which was captured on video, quickly got out of hand when one of the men on the pontoon boat allegedly started getting physical with the deckhand.
As the season progressed, he was promoted to lead deckhand for taking the most initiative on the boat.
Bri and Ellie's feud over lead deckhand Joe Bradley certainly didn't help, but their incompetence exacerbated strains on their three-person interior crew.
Below Deck: Who is new deckhand Robert Phillips?
Deckhand Chris Brown was let go early in season 5 when a new bosun was brought on board.
Deckhand Rhylee Gerber looked worried that Rosbach was going to fire her when bosun Ashton Pienaar insisted she should be let go.
First mate David was involved in determining chief stew Hannah Ferrier’s dismissal and assisting deckhand Rob Westergaard with applying to do the crossing.
In fact, when it comes to the exterior crew, specifically her roommate, fellow deckhand James Hough, she’s proven that not only can she take his joking around, but she can give it back ten times better.
She finished school a year early to start her first job as a deckhand for an organization dedicated to cleaning up coastlines before volunteering for the summer season on Kure Atoll.
After significant speculation, asked deckhand Colin Macy-O’Toole point-blank if Robinson steps in. “No, absolutely not,” Macy-O’Toole said.
It takes an original mind to spot a unique concept, and the founder of Pizza Express, Peter Boizot, was a Cambridge-educated maverick who’d dabbled in everything from toiling as a deckhand to teaching and working in PR as well as for a Rome press agency.
She came in mid-season to replace third deckhand Abbi Murphy.
A deckhand and a dog were also aboard, he said.
This leads to a wild night of hard partying, which only brings on more drama when Lead Deckhand and Hannah find themselves at odds.
We have moved a file for two more vessels and a staff of bosun, engineer, driver and junior deckhand,” a fisheries official told TOI on Tuesday.
Bags of abalone pried from the rocks are brought to the surface by the diver or by way of "shot line", where the deckhand drops a weighted rope for the catch bag to be connected then retrieved.
Divers measure each abalone before removing from the reef and the deckhand remeasures each abalone and removes excess weed growth from the shell.
Common combinations with deckhand
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the deckhand 6×
- lead deckhand 3×
- deckhand for 2×
- as deckhand 2×
- deckhand and 2×