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Roustabout
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Roustabout'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/roustabout.html. 1828.