noun
- an unskilled laborer who does odd jobs, especially on a ranch or farm
Usage: Australian; New Zealand
Examples
- The station hired several rouseabouts for the busy shearing season.
- As a young rouseabout, he learned the basics of farm work.
- The rouseabouts helped move the sheep into the holding pens.
- She started as a rouseabout before becoming a skilled shearer.
- The ranch needed extra rouseabouts during cattle mustering.
- He worked as a rouseabout on various properties across the outback.