second num Comb ~ hand.
1 1897 Evening Telegram 4 Mar The S.S. Mastiff, Capt Frank Jackman, was off Renews at about 5.30 last evening, taking her second hand from that place. [1976] 1985 LEHR & BEST (eds) 57 "The Elsie M. Hart": Her name it was the Elsie M. Hart, Captain March was in command. /Steven Pelley from Random Island on her was second hand. 1986 Evening Telegram 22 Mar, p. 4 One [turr] flew into the second hand (Jarvis Winsor) and cut his face.
2 1983 Terminology of Loggers 16 ~ The assistant to the foreman. 1985 ASHTON 193 'Now in comes Lazarus, he's our second hand,/He's goin' to boil the kettle with the axe in his hand.' 1987 POOLE 93 The big boss had taken over Snug Harbour and I was the second hand and did not go on the collector but stayed on the room all summer.
