Canadian English Meaning of roustabout

Roustabout

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Definitions and Meaning of roustabout in English

Wordnet

roustabout (n)

a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor

Webster

roustabout (n.)

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.

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Roustabout

a member of a ship's crew who performs manual laborA laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the

longshoreman,Longshoreman,stevedore,docker,,Dockhand

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roust => rouse, roussette => Flying fox, rousseauan => Rousseauian, rousseau => Rousseau, rousingly => rousingly,