What's the difference between deckhand and roustabout?

Deckhand


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Roustabout


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  • (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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