Home › Words › D › deckmandeckmandeckman means A surname from German.EtymologyVariant spelling of German Deckmann.nameA surname from German.nounA man who works on the deck of a ship.e.g.“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:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.deckie 81% match — A deckhand. vs deckman →deckhand 70% match — A member of the crew of a merchant ship who performs manual labour. vs deckman →deckward 66% match — Toward the deck of a ship. vs deckman →decker 65% match — One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer. vs deckman →dockman 65% match — A man who works on a dock. vs deckman →deckside 64% match — On the deck of a vessel. vs deckman →decktop 63% match — The top of a deck (on a ship etc.). vs deckman →dockyardman 61% match — A laborer employed in a dockyard. vs deckman →