English-Thai Dictionary
roust
VT ขับไล่ ขับ ออก kab-lai
roustabout
N กรรมกร ท่าเรือ laborer stevedore longshoreman kam-ma-kon-ta-ruea
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
ROUST
ROUST Roust (roust ), v. t.
Defn: To rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]
ROUST
Roust, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. röst an estuary. ]
Defn: A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. [Written also rost, and roost. ] Jamieson.
ROUSTABOUT
Roust "a *bout `, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain. ]
Defn: 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. [Western U.S.]
New American Oxford Dictionary
roust
roust |roust raʊst | ▶verb [ with obj. ] cause to get up or start moving; rouse: I rousted him out of his bed with a cup of coffee. • informal treat roughly; harass: the detectives who had rousted him the night of the murder. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: perhaps an alteration of rouse .
roustabout
roust a bout |ˈroustəˌbout ˈraʊstəˌbaʊt | ▶noun an unskilled or casual laborer. • a laborer on an oil rig. • a dock laborer or deckhand. • a circus laborer. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from the verb roust .
Oxford Dictionary
roust
roust |raʊst | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 N. Amer. cause to get up or start moving; rouse: I rousted him out of his bed with a cup of tea. 2 informal treat roughly; harass: the detectives who had rousted him the night of the murder. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: perhaps an alteration of rouse .
roustabout
roustabout |ˈraʊstəbaʊt | ▶noun an unskilled or casual labourer. • a labourer on an oil rig. • N. Amer. a dock labourer or deckhand. • N. Amer. a circus labourer. • Austral. /NZ variant spelling of rouseabout. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from the verb roust .
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
roust
roust /raʊst /動詞 他動詞 〈人 〉を (寝床などから )起こす, 追い出す (out ).
roustabout
roust a bout /ráʊstəbàʊt /名詞 C ｟米 ｠港湾労働者 ; (油田 牧場などの )未熟練労働者 ; (サーカスの )下働き .
The Wordsmith Dictionary