Associations to the word «Roustabout»

Wiktionary

ROUSTABOUT, noun. (chiefly US) an unskilled laborer, especially at an oilfield, at a circus or on a ship

Dictionary definition

ROUSTABOUT, noun. A member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King