deckman
nounEtymology From deck + -man.
1
A man who works on the deck of a ship.
- After he left baseball, Rhodes stayed in New York, living on Staten Island and working as a steerer, a deckman and a cook on tugboats.2009 June 19, Bruce Weber, “Dusty Rhodes, Star Pinch-Hitter in ’54 Series, Dies at 82”, in New York Times: