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A member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor
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roustabout
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Roustabout is a traditional term used to describe a fairground or circus worker, which is now used in the oil industry. An oil roustabout refers to a worker who maintains all things in the oil field . He or she sets up oil well heads, oil lead lines connected ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roustabout \Roust"a*bout`\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs. [Western U.S.]
WordNet
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n. a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor [syn: deckhand ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Spent three days as roustabout and barker with the jerry Lepke Ten-in-One Carnival.
Usage examples of roustabout.
Goesle was doing that, Florian went to the adjoining room where the roustabouts were dining, and called Aleksandr Banat away from the table.
Clover Lee continued to shout, and someone somewhere shrilly blew a whistle, and Florian and Banat and numerous roustabouts poured out of the chapiteau, each with a tent stake.
This clothing served as a uniform for The Watchmen in training, but also made plausible working gear for them in their secondary roles as drillers, rig mechanics, floormen, roustabouts and other categories of occupation aboard the drillship half a mile off-shore.
He nodded at Kenny and, without so much as a glance toward the Foosball game, headed for the door of the Roustabout.
The roustabouts cut long, woody branches on the left side of the road and Ray, Obie, and Shellabarger slipped them under the rear tires.
They passed a steady line of roustabouts packing up the paraphernalia into train cars, carrying rolls of thick ropes over their shoulders or slung between two men, iron bars and beams and collapsed sections of cages, welding equipment, and piles of other stuff Peter was too tired to identify.
Numerous boats lined up along the docks, stageplanks securing them to the piers that teemed with shouting, whistling, singing roustabouts loading freight: feed, flour, sugar, and other supplies for the plantations up and down the river.
Roustabouts rolled the runways out again and connected them with loud clangs to the cages in the center ring.
Four long trucks were parked alongside the generators, and roustabouts busily loaded and unloaded equipment from the rear and side doors of their trailers.
In the outer rings, Peter saw, clowns and roustabouts were making preparations for another act.
Five or six roustabouts stood ready to reinforce the cage with wooden beams.
He stared up at the shadows on the ornate ceiling, listening to the the roustabouts still working in the darkness, hammering and pulling and singing.
The camera panned the length of the runway to take in the expectant roustabouts and the cage sitting on the loading pallet.
The roustabouts and camera crew ran around the ship to keep in shape, or read paperback books on the few deck chairs, or hung out with the sailors, trying to pick up information about the ports they would be seeing.
Peter tended the animals with the roustabouts that afternoon while Shellabarger and OBie confirmed advance preparations on the radiotelephone.