rouseabout

British  

/ ˈraʊsəˌbaʊt /

noun

1. Also called: roustabout.  an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed

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Example Sentences

To keep peace, he takes a job as a "rouseabout" in a shearing shed.

From Time Magazine Archive

At this yearly festival every owner, manager, jackeroo and rouseabout, within a hundred miles of the course, makes it a point of honour to be present.

From A Crime of the Under-seas by Boothby, Guy Newell

A rougher person—perhaps a happier—is the rouseabout, who makes himself useful in the shearing shed.

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

Tall and freckled and sandy, Face of a country lout; That was the picture of Andy— Middleton's rouseabout.

From On the Track by Lawson, Henry

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