roustabout Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor
    deckhand.

WordNet

Roust"a*bout` noun
Etymology
Etymol. uncertain.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913