deckhands

Noun

deckhand (plural deckhands)

1. 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, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Unbeliever; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 33
2. A stagehand.
   • Sometimes actors set props on the spikes, or sometimes a deckhand will do it, depending on the action of the play.2020, John Ramsey Holloway, Zachary Stribling, Illustrated Theatre Production Guide, page 15

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