Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
rouseabout noun
- Australian and NZ an unskilled labourer in a shearing shedAlso called: roustabout
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 Examples from the Web for rouseabout Historical Examples of rouseabout
From the rouseabout we found that Eversofar and Bingong were also gone.
Cumner & South Sea Folk, Complete
Gilbert Parker
And presently I saw the little “tin” house where the out-station boss lived, and the tent I shared with my chum the “rouseabout.”
Morley Roberts
The next morning, at breakfast-time, a rouseabout brought us a piece of paper which had been nailed to the sandal-tree.
Cumner & South Sea Folk, Complete
Gilbert Parker
Bill and Jim—shearer and rouseabout—sat at a table playing cards.
Henry Lawson
