deckhand
Collocations
3ADJ.
old
DECKHAND + NOUN
sam
ADV.
sometimes
Definitions
noun
A member of the crew of a merchant ship who performs manual labour.
A stagehand.
Sometimes actors set props on the spikes, or sometimes a deckhand will do it, depending on the action of the play.
verb
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.
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!
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Synonyms
noun — a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor
- roustabout
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Example Bank
5Sometimes actors set props on the spikes, or sometimes a deckhand will do it, depending on the action of the play.
WiktionaryYou 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.
WiktionaryI 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!
WiktionaryYears later, I met a guy who had deckhanded on her after I did, and he was a little more equivocal.
WiktionaryHe went to sea as a deckhand at the age of fourteen.
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