hands, all

hands, all
   Used to address all members of a ship’s crew, the speaker usually being the captain. An example of such usage occurs in Doctor at Sea, by Richard Gordon, but it was probably far more frequent in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries than it is today. The term is sometimes used jokingly to address any company of people, especially when the speaker is asking them to do a job of some kind: ‘Come on, now, all hands to the wheel.’

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