noun (n)

• a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor(noun.person)

  Synonym:
  deckhand
  

  source: wordnet30
• A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs.(noun)

  source: webster1913