deckhand — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A member of the crew of a merchant ship who performs manual labour.

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   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.

2. A stagehand.

   Examples

   Sometimes actors set props on the spikes, or sometimes a deckhand will do it, depending on the action of the play.

Verb

1. To work on a boat as a deckhand; crew.

   Usage

   • Intransitive

   Examples

   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!

   More examples (2)

   Years later, I met a guy who had deckhanded on her after I did, and he was a little more equivocal.

   Larry ran a tugboat company from there, and sometimes my brother and I deckhanded for him.

Noun

1. a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor

   Synonyms

   roustabout

   Broader terms

   marinerseamantarJack-tarJackold saltseafarergobsea dog