Sentence example with the word 'roustabout'

roustabout

bakehead, casual, deckhand, flunky, hospital steward, loader, navvy, salaried worker, steward, wage earner, workhand

Definition n. a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor

Last update: August 29, 2015


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He works in a oil mill as a roustabout.   [Please select]

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By the way, Knight wants a camp hand, a kind of roustabout, who can cook--a handy man, you know.   [Please select]

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No one could tell by speech, manners, or dress whether a man's former status was lawyer, physician, or roustabout.   [Please select]

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At first sight you would take "Mac" for a mere roustabout, like most who go a'soldiering.'   [Please select]

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It takes a Whitney to invent the cotton gin, but the dullest negro roustabout can operate it.   [Please select]

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Steve, head between shoulders, made for the breastwork and sank into one of these openings, his neighbour upon one hand an Irish roustabout, on the other a Creole from a sugar plantation.   [Please select]

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With the roustabout crew that had been shipped in New York from a West Street boarding-master it took some time to get the anchor broken out--the men going at their work sulkily.   [Please select]

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