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The deckhand
noun
A member of the crew of a merchant ship who performs manual labour.
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The deckhand was starting to come around.
The deckhand pulls a big, bare hook into a live mackerel.
The deckhand quickly wraps the line around his gloved hands, pierces the big fish with the gaffe, then leans over and clubs him to death with a chopped-off baseball bat.
The deckhand was shocked while buffing Greene's yacht and wound up hospitalized.
The deckhand was young and had the energy of a squirrel who'd washed down an Adderall with a double espresso and a Red Bull back.
The deckhand indicated that apart from tuna, the driftnets also caught "many" penguins, 15 20 dolphins, 3 4 small whales, sunfish, and "lots" of sharks and other fish in the month of fishing.
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The first mate, Peter Hammarstedt, yelled from the bridge to the deckhands, "Get some grappling hooks.
Each 100-pound sack means $14 for the captain and $3 apiece for the deckhands.
The deckhands on the drift-collectors are called"cowboys" because they have to lasso the floating logs, etc.
The deckhands sent into the ocean to manually clear the area of jellyfish before a guest went swimming.
"The deckhands primarily loaded and unloaded material while the bartenders operated on-board snack bars," she said.
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