rouseabout

/ ˈraʊsəˌbaʊt /

noun

1. an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed Also calledroustabout

Example Sentences

Occasionally, in order to procure some tobacco or a little money for a spree at a shanty, they will take a job for a time as rouseabout or wood-chopper, but they are soon off on the “wallaby track” again.

From Project Gutenberg

Sans standard of physique, sans much orthodox training, sans everything but virility, inherent horsemanship, inherent wild-land craft, mounted on his own pony—bronco of Canada or brumbie of Australia—the Canadian ranche hand, the Australian stockrider, shearer, station rouseabout, or the ‘cull’ of all lands Anglicised might easily become the quintessence of a useful and operative force against a semi-guerilla enemy.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

You go about in old clothes as if you hadn't a penny to bless yourself with; and I might be anybody's rouseabout for the look of me.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Time Magazine Archive