deepwaterman

Noun

deepwaterman (plural deepwatermen)

1. A ship that is used to voyage and operate in deep waters.
   • Aboard a real shipshape and Bristol fashion deepwaterman of the old school, if there be any such left today, everything is done according to the custom of the sea.1918, Riesenberg, Felix, Under sail, The Macmillan company, page 95
   • It is not a job to crave for, that scraping out of the bilges of a deepwaterman.1923, The Saturday evening post, G. Graham, page 13
2. A person who works in deep waters at sea.
   • 'Hell ships' were commonest among deepwatermen on long voyages round the Horn, or among the whalers when the best class of foremast hands were not to be had.1920, Wood, William Charles Henry, All afloat: a chronicle of craft and waterways, Glasgow, Brook & Company, page 94
   • ... real seamen, fishermen and deepwatermen before the war, all from Brittany, Brest, La Pallice, Saint-Malo and Saint-Nazaire.1943, Carse, Robert, There Go the Ships: The Story of the American Merchant Marine at War, Garden City Publ Co., page 128