| deck hand | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a seaman assigned various duties, such as mooring and cargo handling, on the deck of a ship |
| 2. | (in Britain) a seaman over 17 years of age who has seen sea duty for at least one year |
| 3. | a helper aboard a yacht |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |