Meanings of swab the deck in English

He now could do no work whatever, not even swab the deck.

Still holding the pistol in his hand he gave me several more cuts, and then told me to swab the deck.

Or a pirate ship sim where campers coil ropes, swab the deck and beat the everloving tar out of the cabin boy.

Many a timid passenger, after lying awake through a night of terror, has gone to sleep when the watch began to swab the deck overhead.

Someone is going to have to swab the decks in there.'

Olive would have that young woman swabbing the decks before they had been out three days!

The morning commences with the watch on deck turning-to at daybreak, and washing-down, scrubbing, and swabbing the decks.

The marine guard waited to be dismissed, and Bolitho saw some men swabbing the deck below the larboard gangway.

They were clearing the ropes, collecting the lamps, picking up knives, handspikes, crowbars, swabbing the decks with squashy flaps.

Under my direction the men then swabbed the decks, washed the woodwork, and scoured the copper plates until they shone.

The morning begins with the watch on deck's ''turning to'' at daybreak and washing down, scrubbing, and swabbing the decks.

While we're not actually expected to swab the decks in exchange for our passage, this is a far cry from cruising.

"She's here to cook and swab the decks."

Near the forward hatch, industriously swabbing the deck, was a black-haired youth whose father helps to control some of the largest moves on 'Change.

A week out on the voyage, Rain was on her hands and knees, swabbing the deck, when Aaath Ulber bumbled past, stepping on her hand.

Conrad dropped the tuna into the hold, piling ice around them, while Rollo swabbed the deck, slick from the blood of the throats they'd cut.