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English Dictionary: roustabout by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
roustabout
n
  1. a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor [syn: deckhand, roustabout]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.]
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