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rouseabout

/ ˈraʊsəˌbaʊt /

noun

  1. an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed Also calledroustabout
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The next morning, at breakfast-time, a rouseabout brought us a piece of paper which had been nailed to the sandal-tree.

From the rouseabout we found that Eversofar and Bingong were also gone.

Bill and Jim—shearer and rouseabout—sat at a table playing cards.

And presently I saw the little "tin" house where the out-station boss lived, and the tent I shared with my chum the "rouseabout."

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