What is "roustabouts"

Usage examples of "roustabouts".

Peter played shuffleboard and Ping-Pong with Harryhausen, burly, sandy-haired Rob Keller, who was in charge of the roustabouts and reported directly to Shellabarger, and Osborne from the camera crew.

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.

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.

When they were done, Keller climbed up the ladder with most of the roustabouts, but Kasem and Ray stayed with Peter in the shadowy hold.

OBie, Ray, and the roustabouts and camera crew took their own boat rides from the dock and clambered onto the barges.

Shellabarger ordered the roustabouts to bring barrels of water up from the last car, which carried their supplies.

One by one, the roustabouts poured water from drums into their drinking troughs.

Peter and Anthony joined the film crew and roustabouts in chocking the boat with bits of log, rocks, even palm fronds, so it would not roll any farther.

The roustabouts and workers began laboriously wrestling the boat back into position, pulling with ropes attached to log-drum winches.