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rouseabout en · NOUN
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(Australia, alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of roustabout.
1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XIV, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
A rough coffin was made during the night and at the grave half-a-dozen of the line men with Strangway, Stanley, Talmud, the doctor and a couple of rouseabouts constituted the mourners.
A wool store is adjacent to the shed; and a short distance away are the superintendents quarters; the shearers, and the “rouse-about” men’s huts.
1872 August 31, “A Tour to the South”, in Town & Country Journal, pages 272–3:He was the general rouseabout for the town really. Whenever they needed a dirty job done Nat was on the list.
2013 July 14, Kerry Staight, “Loving restoration of history from the outback dust”, in ABC News:
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rousie