"deckman" meaning in English

See deckman in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: deckmen [plural]
Etymology: deck + -man Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|deck|man}} deck + -man Head templates: {{en-noun|deckmen}} deckman (plural deckmen)
  1. A man who works on the deck of a ship.
    Sense id: en-deckman-en-noun-3UvoK7Ba Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -man

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for deckman meaning in English (1.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "deck",
        "3": "man"
      },
      "expansion": "deck + -man",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "deck + -man",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deckmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "deckmen"
      },
      "expansion": "deckman (plural deckmen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -man",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 June 19, Bruce Weber, “Dusty Rhodes, Star Pinch-Hitter in ’54 Series, Dies at 82”, in New York Times",
          "text": "After he left baseball, Rhodes stayed in New York, living on Staten Island and working as a steerer, a deckman and a cook on tugboats.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man who works on the deck of a ship."
      ],
      "id": "en-deckman-en-noun-3UvoK7Ba",
      "links": [
        [
          "deck",
          "deck"
        ],
        [
          "ship",
          "ship"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "deckman"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "deck",
        "3": "man"
      },
      "expansion": "deck + -man",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "deck + -man",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deckmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "deckmen"
      },
      "expansion": "deckman (plural deckmen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms suffixed with -man",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 June 19, Bruce Weber, “Dusty Rhodes, Star Pinch-Hitter in ’54 Series, Dies at 82”, in New York Times",
          "text": "After he left baseball, Rhodes stayed in New York, living on Staten Island and working as a steerer, a deckman and a cook on tugboats.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man who works on the deck of a ship."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "deck",
          "deck"
        ],
        [
          "ship",
          "ship"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "deckman"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.