deckhand
/ˈdɛkˌhænd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of the crew of a merchant ship who performs manual labour.
noun
A stagehand.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdɛkˌhænd/