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/ˈdɛkˌhænd/ · noun
(nautical) A member of the crew of a merchant ship who performs manual labour..
Sometimes actors set props on the spikes, or sometimes a deckhand will do it, depending on the action of the play.
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!
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.
Use deck hand when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Deck hand means (nautical) A member of the crew of a merchant ship who performs manual labour..
Common synonyms include roustabout.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Sometimes actors set props on the spikes, or sometimes a deckhand will do it, depending on the action of the play.
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