Fromdeck +hand.
deckhand (pluraldeckhands)
- (nautical) A member of thecrew of amerchant ship who performsmanuallabour.
- (theater) Astagehand.
2020, John Ramsey Holloway, Zachary Stribling,Illustrated Theatre Production Guide, page15:Sometimes actors set props on the spikes, or sometimes adeckhand will do it, depending on the action of the play.
deckhand (third-person singular simple presentdeckhands,present participledeckhanding,simple past and past participledeckhanded)
- (intransitive) To work on a boat as a deckhand;crew.
1999, Dana Stabenow,Hunter's Moon,→ISBN:Youdeckhand 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.
2004, Stephen Hume,A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming,→ISBN, page210:Ideckhanded on a fish boat for four years and knew no fisherman likes to be called out of the blue and have his numbers demanded!
2011, Bruce Burrows,The River Killers,→ISBN, page16:Years later, I met a guy who haddeckhanded on her after I did, and he was a little more equivocal.
2017, Claire Dederer,Love and Trouble: Memoirs of a Former Wild Girl,→ISBN:Larry ran a tugboat company from there, and sometimes my brother and Ideckhanded for him.
