Sekirov Dictionary

deckhand

/ˈdɛkˌhænd/

noun 2
verb 1
forms 3

noun2

•
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. — 1952
•
A stagehand.
- Sometimes actors set props on the spikes, or sometimes a deckhand will do it, depending on the action of the play. — 2020

verb1

•
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. — 1999

forms

deckhanded · deckhanding · deckhands

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