This first ship had a small geophysical-type drilling rig mounted over the side of the ship with a steel grid runround for the roughnecks, who stood in knee-deep water while making connections or pulling the drill string.
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Roughneck
//ˈɹʌfˌnɛk//
Synonyms for "roughneck" (84 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (42)
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Translations
14 translations across 6 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- грубиян noun (someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person)
French
2 entries- arriéré noun (someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person)
- ours mal léché noun (someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person)
German
1 entries- Raubein noun (someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person)
Hungarian
4 entries- bunkó noun (someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person)
- olajfúró noun (a laborer on an oil rig)
- rakodómunkás noun (ironworker; dirty or low-paid worker, laborer)
- segédmunkás noun (ironworker; dirty or low-paid worker, laborer)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- طولومبهجی noun (someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person)
Portuguese
3 entries- casca-grossa noun (someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person)
- grosseirão noun (someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person)
- malcriado noun (someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
As for the minerals, there has been a good deal of drilling along the big river; trucks and roughnecks no longer garner any notice.
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LaTisha has long wanted to show Carole sheʼs not the roughneck she used to be, the roughneck who wasnʼt good enough to be her friend.
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There was a time not long ago when this region appeared as some enduring mystification, its citizenry best known for roughnecking on the North Slope […]
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