Usually means: Assistant on a ship, boat.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word deckhand:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. deckhand: Merriam-Webster
  2. deckhand: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deckhand: Collins English Dictionary
  4. deckhand: Vocabulary.com
  5. Deckhand, deckhand: Wordnik
  6. deckhand: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. deckhand: Wiktionary
  8. deckhand: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. deckhand: Dictionary.com
  10. Deckhand: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. deckhand: Rhymezone
  12. deckhand: FreeDictionary.org
  13. deckhand: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. deckhand: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. deckhand: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deckhand: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Deckhand: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (nautical) A member of the crew of a merchant ship who performs manual labour.
noun:  (theater) A stagehand.
verb:  (intransitive) To work on a boat as a deckhand; crew.

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