deckhand
noun/ˈdɛkˌhænd/US
Etymology
Definitions
A member of the crew of a merchant ship who performs manual labour.
A stagehand.
- Sometimes actors set props on the spikes, or sometimes a deckhand will do it, depending on the action of the play.
To work on a boat as a deckhand
To work on a boat as a deckhand; crew.
- You deckhand for Old Sam in the summer, you guide climbers up the Big Bump in the spring, you can skin a Cat, mine for gold, butcher a moose, fix an engine.
- I deckhanded on a fish boat for four years and knew no fisherman likes to be called out of the blue and have his numbers demanded!
- Years later, I met a guy who had deckhanded on her after I did, and he was a little more equivocal.
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