roustabout

Example Sentences

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It was a roustabout settlement with three stores, a blacksmithy, a boarding house, a half-dozen saloons, gambling hells and dance halls.

From Los Angeles Times

But the roustabout Hal’s dawning maturity costs him the companion he once held dear.

From New York Times

I spoke to prison guards who patrolled the wards of violent penitentiaries, undocumented immigrants who toiled on the “kill floors” of industrial slaughterhouses and roustabouts who worked on offshore rigs in the fossil-fuel industry.

From New York Times

As a former construction worker, he had the foundation, with some additional training, to begin working as a roustabout, assembling and repairing equipment in the offshore oil industry two years ago.

From Seattle Times

His character is a janitor and general roustabout, angling for a spot in the show.

From New York Times