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Definition of Stagehand
1. Noun. An employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production.
Group relationships: Stage Crew
Generic synonyms: Employee
Specialized synonyms: Property Man, Property Master, Propman, Sceneshifter, Shifter
Definition of Stagehand
1. Noun. A person who works behind the scenes at a theatre or in other theatrical media. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stagehand
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stagehand
Literary usage of Stagehand
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"Before he took to sailing, Mr. Crocker had been a stagehand at the Metropolitan.
Sure, he knew Caruso. Interesting? "Nah! ..."
2. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1922)
"The German stage machine is a Frankenstein stagehand. It is intended to do the
work of scene shifting at great economy of effort and time. ..."
3. The New Map of Europe (1911-1914): The Story of the Recent European by Herbert Adams Gibbons (1914)
"... experimental stagehand that the duty at hand was ^ the "immediate
consolidation.of..the. various-states &••*• into ..."
4. Artists and Thinkers by Louis William Flaccus (1916)
"This wastefulness of modern art is tragic because the drudges of art, the printer,
the stagehand, the musician, caught in a deadening routine, ..."
5. Ten One-act Plays by Alice Gerstenberg (1921)
"stagehand [Off stage] Good morning, Mr. Sud. SUD Good morning, Gus. Just set two
doors, that'll be all I'll need this morning. We're rehearsing for lines. ..."
6. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1915)
"... minute is pumped by motor-driven centrifugals, usually five stagehand 1500 gal.
per minute by motor-driven geared plunger pumps, triplex or quadruplex. ..."
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