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  • noun science fiction A low-ranking member of the crew of a spaceship

Etymologies

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From space + deckhand

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Examples

  • Maybe, not being a spacehand, she won't obey my order and stay at the boat.

    Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991

  • Irritable at the lack of fresh meat, a spacehand kicked the man aside.

    Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991

  • The glimpses of something personal, a picture or souvenir, showed a taste more austere and abstract than was likely in a human spacehand.

    A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969

  • An old spacehand can usually recover, catlike, in an unexpected change from weightlessness to acceleration.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • Why do I have to dodge out of the path of every idiotic spacehand who comes tearing back here as though the planet was full of devils?

    Natives of Space Clement, Hal 1965

  • A spacehand, a stocky slant-eyed nomad from Altai, uncoiled a lariat.

    Trader To The Stars Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1964

  • There wasn’t a stitch of clothing among the hundreds of people he saw soaking in the pools or standing beside them—a delightful sight even for a veteran spacehand who had seen similar situations many times before.

    Mudd in Your Eye Jerry Oltion 1990

  • There wasn’t a stitch of clothing among the hundreds of people he saw soaking in the pools or standing beside them—a delightful sight even for a veteran spacehand who had seen similar situations many times before.

    Mudd in Your Eye Jerry Oltion 1990

  • There wasn’t a stitch of clothing among the hundreds of people he saw soaking in the pools or standing beside them—a delightful sight even for a veteran spacehand who had seen similar situations many times before.

    Mudd in Your Eye Jerry Oltion 1990

  • TrafficControl passed me so near a bus that I looked in its canopy and saw the passengers were from the whole globe and beyond-a dandified Lunarian, a stocky blueskin of Alfzar, a spacehand identified by his Brotheihood badge, a journeyman merchant of the Polesotechnic League who didn’t bother with any identification except the skin weathered beneath strange suns, the go-to-hell independence in his face, which turned me sick with envy.

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

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