ROUSTABOUT

deckhand, roustabout

(noun) a member of a ship’s crew who performs manual labor

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

roustabout (plural roustabouts)

(chiefly, US) an unskilled laborer, especially at an oilfield, at a circus or on a ship, 19th c.

Anagrams

• tourabouts

Source: Wiktionary


Roust"a*bout`, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]

Definition: 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.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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