Meaning

1 senses

  1. To work on a boat as a deckhand; crew.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. He went to sea as a deckhand at the age of fourteen.

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Origin

From deck + hand.

From deck + hand.

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Forms

deckhands, deckhanding, deckhanded, deckhanded
Base formdeckhand · to deckhand
3rd person singulardeckhands
Present participledeckhanding
Past simpledeckhanded
Past participledeckhanded

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydeckhand
he, she, itdeckhands

Past simpleLesson

all personsdeckhanded

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave deckhanded
he, she, ithas deckhanded

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill deckhand

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
decisivenessdeckB2deckerdeclarationB1declarativedeclareB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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