deckhand

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deckhand

/ˈdɛkˌhænd/ US

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From deck + hand.

noun deckhands

A member of the crew of a merchant ship who performs manual labour. But I wasn't good medicine for myself after I left them, he admitted, remembering the dreary years of failure at farming and trading, as blacksmith and deck hand and bullwhacker.
A stagehand. Sometimes actors set props on the spikes, or sometimes a deckhand will do it, depending on the action of the play.

verb deckhands · deckhanding · deckhanded

intransitive 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.

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@misc{deckhand_2026,
  title = {deckhand},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/deckhand},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}