roustabout
noun
1 roustabout
A member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor.
synonym: deckhand.
Roget 690:
doer,
actor,
agent,
performer,
perpetrator,
operator;
executor,
executrix;
practitioner,
worker,
stager.
bee,
ant,
working bee,
termite,
white ant;
laboring oar,
servant of all work,
factotum.
workman,
artisan;
craftsman,
handicraftsman;
mechanic,
operative;
working man;
laboring man;
demiurgus,
hewers of wood and drawers of water,
laborer,
navvy†;
hand,
man,
day laborer,
journeyman,
charwoman,
hack;
mere tool
etc.
633;
beast of burden,
drudge,
fag;
lumper†,
roustabout.
maker,
artificer,
artist,
wright,
manufacturer,
architect,
builder,
mason,
bricklayer,
smith,
forger,
Vulcan;
carpenter;
ganger,
platelayer;
blacksmith,
locksmith,
sailmaker,
wheelwright.
machinist,
mechanician,
engineer.
sempstress†,
semstress†,
seamstress;
needlewoman†,
workwoman;
tailor,
cordwainer†.
minister
etc.
(instrument)
631;
servant
etc.
746;
representative
etc.
(commissioner)
758,
(deputy)
759.
coworker,
party to,
participator in,
particeps criminis [Lat.],
dramatis personae [Lat.];
personnel.
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Dutch: hulppersoneel
Polish: majtek
Moby thesaurus: bakehead, black gang, blue-collar worker, boilerman, breadwinner, bungs, cabin boy, casual, casual laborer, chips, commissary steward, common laborer, complement, day laborer, deckhand, deckie, docker, dockhand, employee, factory worker, fireman, flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, gun loader, gunner, hand, hospital steward, industrial worker, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, landing signalman, loader, longshoreman, mail orderly, menial, migrant, moiler, navigator, navvy, office temporary, oiler, operative, proletarian, purser, radio operator, salaried worker, self-employed person, servant, snip, snips, sparks, stevedore, steward, stewardess, stiff, stoker, temporary, toiler, torpedoman, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, watch, wharf hand, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman, yeoman ... show more.
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