different between landman vs roustabout

English

Alternative forms

• landsman

Etymology

land +? -man

Noun

landman (plural landmen)

1. Someone who lives or works on land, as opposed to a seaman.
2. In the United States, a person involved in determining, transferring, or managing mineral rights, to include oil (petroleum) and natural gas exploration, development, and production.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch lantman. Equivalent to land +? man.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?nt.m?n/
• Hyphenation: land?man

Noun

landman m (plural landmannen, diminutive landmannetje n)

1. farmer

   Synonyms: boer, bouwman

English

Alternative forms

• rouseabout

Etymology

Unknown

Noun

roustabout (plural roustabouts)

1. (chiefly US) an unskilled laborer, especially at an oilfield, at a circus or on a ship, 19th c.
   • 1961, Robert Fitzgerald (translator), Homer, Odyssey, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Book Eleven, 668-9,

     Then Sísiphos in torment I beheld / being roustabout to a tremendous boulder.

   • 1974, Saul Bellow, "Him with His Foot in His Mouth" in Collected Stories, Penguin, 2001, p. 377,

     Brooklyn Tony, who had run away from home to be a circus roustabout, became a poster artist and eventually an Abstract Expressionist.

   • 2013, Celeste Headlee, NPR, 7 January, 2013, [1]

     She works in McGregor, North Dakota as a roustabout pusher. That means she and her crew help fix and maintain the drilling sites.

   See also quotations under rouseabout.

Translations

Further reading

• roustabout on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• tourabouts