Word Meanings - ROUSTABOUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Especially
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• Senseful
  Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious.
• Senseless
  Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.
• Loadsman
  Alt. of Lodesman
• Shiftless
  Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftles
• Cargoose
  A species of grebe (Podiceps crisratus); the crested grebe.
• Loadstar
  Alt. of Lodestar
• Steamboat
  A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.
• Loadstone
  Alt. of Lodestone
• Steamboating
  The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.
• Opprobrious
  Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language.
• Vagrant
  Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
• Chanceable
  Fortuitous; casual.

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