rouseabout
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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To keep peace, he takes a job as a "rouseabout" in a shearing shed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes he worked for a while himself as bookkeeper at a shearing-shed, wool-sorter, shearer, even rouseabout; he'd work at anything a bushman could get to do.
From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry
While we sat there, a rouseabout came to the door.
From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis
And presently I saw the little "tin" house where the out-station boss lived, and the tent I shared with my chum the "rouseabout."
From A Tramp's Notebook by Roberts, Morley
The "boss-over-the-board" was leaning with his back to the wall between two shoots, reading a reference handed to him by a green-hand applying for work as picker-up or woolroller—a shed rouseabout.
From Over the Sliprails by Lawson, Henry
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