deckwise

Knowledgeable about working as a deckhand.

Adjective

Knowledgeable about working as a deckhand.
- The once-unthinkable to Hank became his concentrated project for the next several days: to hone his deckwise wife to the mysteries of spotting and capturing humpie salmon from the viewpoint of the wheelhouse. - 2013,...
Pertaining to the deck.
- All things deckwise were under the command of the bosun. - 2008, Peter Heller, The Whale Warriors, →ISBN:
Along or toward the deck.
- Free-running model tests showed that the SSP would heel into a high-speed turn actually somewhat more than necessary for the deckwise components of gravitational and centrifugal force to cancel. - 1974, T. G Lang, J. D...
- Deckwise separation of the ends through leasing and warping reeds - 1982, Textile World - Volume 132, page 22:

From deck + -wise.

Concerning the deck.
- Deckwise, there was a Supreme Capt., an Assistant Supreme Capt., a deputy Supreme Capt., six Asst. Deputy Supreme Capts., six Jr. Asst. Deputy Supreme Capts., six Jr. Third Asst. Deputy Capts., and the usual number of...
- This lobster boat wasn't much larger, deckwise, than a rowboat, it seemed. - 1993, Sandy Dengler, A model murder: a Jack Prester mystery, →ISBN, page 112:
- We might have all been in the same boat during the war, but The Mauretania was arranged deckwise like the ocean liner - first class for the officers down to stowage for other ranks. - 2006, Ian Bone, Bash the Rich:...
Along or toward the deck.
- The starched maids who strolled deckwise of an evening had long since tumbled into their bunks to snore like ladies until such hour as they chose luxuriously to arise. - 1912, Arthur Cheney Train, "C Q": Or, In the...
- She was adorned with many movable planks, each laid deckwise when not in use as a gangway. - 1913, Catholic World - Volume 97, page 769:
- Every time I followed a length of stairs I went deeper into the ship. Not depthwise, but deckwise. - 1975, Phyllis Reid Fenner, Full forty fathoms: stories of underwater adventure, →ISBN, page 82: