roustabout AmE
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Neither did any of the roustabouts, or whatever their real occupation might be.

He ran away at 13 to travel with the circus as a roustabout.

So she went to London, where once she'd had a roustabout kind of education, but this time as a refugee.

We've been short-handed since my father died two years ago, and we just lost our roustabout.

All of the crew is killed, except the narrator and the roustabout.

Two of the roustabouts had come up and showed every sign that they were going to go accompany him.

She looked over her shoulder at the third roustabout.

I've been waiting a long time for this lazy roustabout to get back."

As if by magic, crews of roustabouts sprang into action.

Behind them Sarah heard one of the roustabouts bet the other five dollars against the third trip coming up again.

He looked like a roustabout in his present attire.

The roustabout in the middle glanced at his companions, then walked toward the two travelers.

He did send a couple of roustabouts in with more fuel for the inadequate stove.

Every so often, a roustabout manages to ship aboard a vessel.

Roustabouts setting up carnival rides came running over at the sound of the blast.

Not much to do unless there's a war on or a company of roustabouts decides to tear up a local bar.

Roustabouts working in oil fields typically perform various jobs requiring little training.

He was employed as a roustabout on an eight-man crew.

As the work train started moving, a roustabout, playing his accordion, ran along beside it.

Disreputable roustabout, even if he did manage to tuck away three years in college.

As if by real sorcery, a couple of hulking roustabouts appeared behind him.

I expect the hungry roustabouts have about cleaned the place out by this time."

During one summer vacation, he worked as a circus roustabout to save enough money to travel to Italy.

"Roustabout" is also an official classification of natural gas and oil rig personnel.

She came level with the boss roustabout and stopped, a crease between her eyebrows.

Before becoming a journalist he worked as a rouseabout in South Australia.

With her husband doing the shearing, Armstrong was the cook and part-time rouseabout.

For years he worked as a farm hand and rouseabout and became a magnificent rider.

Broomie - a rouseabout in a shearing shed.

The Rouseabout (UK title: The Dare), Camberwell, Vic.

A shearer begins by removing the wool over the sheep's belly, which is separated from the main fleece by a rouseabout while the sheep is still being shorn.

Her three novels, Jillaroo, The Stockmen, and The Rouseabout, have all been bestsellers in Australia selling more than 100,000 combined copies by the end of 2007.

Co-founder (with Nick & Tony Wales of Undercover Music Group - Executive Producer of Rouseabout, Yep and Silent Music independent music labels.

Plus over 600 Australian albums produced for the following labels: Larrikin, Yesterday's Australia, Spin, Jarra Hill, Knot, Rouseabout, Yep, Silent, M7, EMI, Universal, Festival etc.

He is featured in the folk song "The Shearer and the Rouseabout" by Joe Watson and the poem "Saint Peter" by Henry Lawson (later adapted into a folk song by Peter Duggan).